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77 out of 100

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9.2 out of 10

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 28
  3. Negative: 1 out of 28
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    100
    Lone Scherfig, the writer-director, has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar. Yes, soar.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    50
    To see this much austere vérité atmosphere propping up this much schlock romanticism is like biting into a blue-cheese canapé that turns out to be a fluffernutter.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Steve Simels
    30
    None of this is any more fun as it sounds -- the cancer ward scenes are truly disturbing -- but to be fair, writer/director Lone Scherfeg (the first woman to make a Dogme 95 film) manages some black-humored laughs.

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