Critic Reviews
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Sharp and irresistible, and there's no other movie like it.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A lighter-than-air comedy than runs on pure fizz.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Tom Keogh
The film's bemused but genuine respect for the ingenious obviousness of a bygone cinematic language is quite moving.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A kind of homage to that more simple and elegant time.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A premise masquerading as a movie.
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| 50 |
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
Charming cinematic bauble.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
Stefan Thiel
Though the story is often silly to the point of ridiculous, its goofy tone and charming characters, especially Frazier's Johnny, create a lovely idealization of a long-gone era.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's really too bad the film remains so resolutely flimsy, because the novice cast is so clearly delighted to be putting on a show, their glee is contagious enough to carry us along -- for a while.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Funny dialogue, crisp black-and-white cinematography, and a well-chosen cast of mostly stage-trained actors raise this eccentric fantasy a notch above the ordinary.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Almost corny enough to be hip.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Mimics the kind of comedy that doesn't date particularly well to begin with.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Good-natured but labored, the film clings to its lone gimmick with increasing desperation.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Essentially a one-trick pony.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Amusing one-joke film.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Grows tiresome rather quickly.
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