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Moscow, Belgium
Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    90
    The movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Bernard Besserglik
    80
    Highly enjoyable romantic comedy.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jordan Mintzer
    80
    Accomplished freshman outing by Flemish TV director Christophe van Rompaey features a knockout perf from actress Barbara Sarafian ("8½ Women").
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    An uncommon comedy that is fairly serious most of the time.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Justin Berton
    75
    Underscores that choices in love are rarely clean and easy, and more often than not, are poignantly funny.
  7. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    75
    There are no big-name stars. Barbara Serafian, who is excellent, has a thin, eclectic resume. She looks a little like Frances McDormand.
  8. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    What's universally hilarious is the way the inhabitants of "Moscow" come so close to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
  9. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Josh Rosenblatt
    67
    Feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world.
  10. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    67
    At worst is inoffensive. But that's the point. When you're making a movie about people whose lives are torn up in this way, inoffensiveness is, well, offensive.
  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    I wanted to keep watching. I wanted to leave. In between, I prayed for the piano-accordion soundtrack to silence itself for just one scene (it's like being trapped in a little French restaurant that refuses to close).
  12. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nicolas Rapold
    50
    We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu.
  13. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    50
    This Belgian comedy suffers from the fact that its mismatched lovers are so consistently unpleasant; it catches fire only in the scenes between the mother and the daughter.
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