Solomon & Gaenor
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58 out of 100

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8.5 out of 10

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  • Summary: Set in the Welsh Valleys around 1911, Solomon & Gaenor tells the moving and ultimately tragic story of the love between a Welsh girl and a Jewish boy. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 22
  3. Negative: 2 out of 22
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    83
    A "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy of surprising power.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    80
    Its pleasures aren't so much in the inevitable plot complications, but in the passion of the performances and the spare beauty of the elegant framing and photography.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    The performances are uniformly excellent.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    30
    Paul Morrison's relentlessly unsurprising staging of a "Romeo and Juliet" story fetishizes its accelerating tragedies with morbid solemnity.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. KaKaUA
    10
    Absolutely loved the movie. Unfortunately, had to watch it in Russian. But, I guess, it was actually a good thing, as I doubt I'd get the Welsh and the Yiddish :)… Expand
  2. rh
    0
    Really bad! boring and hard to follow.

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