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100Superbly acted, movingly written, and directed with a tough-minded lyricism rarely found in today's films. A summer movie to love.
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100Instantly captivating.
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100This is as wonderfully realized an observation of female affinity as 1999's great "The Dreamlife of Angels."
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100Pawlikowski has made a romance that becomes a horror movie in which love, more than anything around it, is a delusionary fever to fear.
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91Pawlikowski has made a gorgeously ambiguous film -- based upon a novel by Helen Cross -- that is blessedly hard to tag; in fact, it's a compilation of genres and moods -- comedy, romance and diabolical thriller -- and that is its core strength and freshness.
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90Its stars, Emily Blunt and Natalie Press, are film newcomers who give startling performances. The photography is often breathtakingly original.
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90The result is a mood movie that sweeps you into its infatuation and holds you there.
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90Two teen girls forge an explosive connection in a compelling Pawel Pawlikowski film.
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90The film is a triumph of mood and implication.
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90Press and Blunt are major discoveries: in this sly and wonderfully atmospheric gem, they conjure up the role-playing raptures of youth with perfect poetic pitch.
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90Direction, performances and lensing blend into an immensely satisfying, if almost uncategorizable, whole in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love.
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90Nuanced, exquisite and predictable.
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90So fraught with unresolved issues of class, sexuality, and spiritual need, and so carefully observed by Pawlikowski, that it opens out like the movie's West Yorkshire countryside.
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88An exquisite exploration into the realms of seduction, obsession, deception and disillusionment.
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88My Summer of Love may sound like the title of a hot teen flick, but it is a truly refreshing grown-up big-screen film, a rare gem in this summer of duds.
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83My Summer of Love, with its lush, sunlit landscapes, may occupy the opposite end of the visual spectrum, but it reinforces the sense that this director knows his way around the range of human emotion as well.
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80Some of the metaphors are a bit too literal but the director largely succeeds with his story and the surprises are convincing. Best of all the film has a terrific sense of humor and the young actresses exploit it delightfully.
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80Pawlikowski's off-balance compositions and affection for odd close-ups suggest the influence of Wong Kar-Wai, but the film's low-key observational spirit owes as much to Mike Leigh.
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80Remains highly watchable throughout, for its atmosphere and the actors.
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75This isn't a coming-of-age movie so much as a movie about being of an age.
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It's all very mesmerizing, for them and us.
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75The movie is enchanting yet strangely menacing, and it becomes clear that Pawlikowski is no mere love fool.
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75Travels so deeply into the confusions of female adolescence that you'd never know this deceptively languid British film was directed by a Polish-born man.
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75Far from earthshaking, but it's fun while it lasts.
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70A bittersweet rite-of-passage story driven by the subtle performances of newcomers Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt.
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70Slowly evolves into an oddly affecting mood piece.
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70The film is emotionally and visually sustained, so it is pleasant.
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67When compared with most of what passes for honest teen drama these days, My Summer of Love is a real reprieve.
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63An intriguing, if meandering, escape from the summer blockbusters.
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63At its most interesting, the movie offers us the sight of people desperately embracing faith in the hopes it will pull them through.
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63Pawlikowski's heart may be with Mona, but his art is closer to Tamsin. He luxuriates in his sensibility without delivering a movie that pays off in originality or insight.
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