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Looking for an Echo
Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    The film's locales have an appealing authentic feel to them, and everything from decor to music contributes to making Looking for an Echo an appealing heart-tugger.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    63
    The best performance comes from Venora.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Well-meant but rambling little indie melodrama.
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  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    A slow-moving, dramatically slack film.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    40
    Assante, restrained and thoughtful, reveals Vinnie's midlife bewilderment as much as his bred-in machismo. His performance is too delicate, though, to stand up to the rigidly formulaic schemes
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Alexander Clare
    30
    The stream of sentimentality is endless and often sickly, and the warm afterglow is decidedly manufactured.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    20
    Corny, suds-drenched movie. The kindest way of looking at this roughly patched-together story is as the cinematic equivalent of the music it memorializes.
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