| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
It's the kind of small but amazing character study (think ``Marty'') that film lovers yearn for while griping that this type of picture no longer gets made. Turns out it does.
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| 100 |
Baltimore Sun
Well-acted, lovingly put together and heartbreakingly honest.
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| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
The charm and art of De Felitta's gentle domestic sketch expand far beyond biographical borders.
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| 90 |
Slate
Beat by beat, scene by scene, gorgeous...at times emotionally devastating.
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| 90 |
Film.com
An unassuming little film that packs a huge emotional and artistic punch.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Experience filmgoing joy.
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| 90 |
Village Voice
A fairy tale that presents love as a case of mutual enchantment, Two Family House is not only uniformly well acted, superbly designed, lovingly lit, and sensitively scored, it's as romantic as it is funny.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
It's all about the little things, and the way in which the little things can steal into your heart in big ways.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A touching and effective film.
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| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In the face of intolerance, Two Family House lovingly celebrates the triumph of love and acceptance over prejudice.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Tenderhearted Staten Island Christmas comedy.
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| 80 |
Variety
For all the pic’s sentimentality, De Felitta refuses to back away from some unpleasantly realistic touches.
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| 80 |
Rolling Stone
Writer-director Raymond De Felitta creates something wonderfully funny and touching.
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| 80 |
Salon.com
The epitome of the small, character-driven film that the indie movement was supposed to champion before it became a hip mirror of the Hollywood star system.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
The story, which deals straightforwardly with racism, miscegenation, adultery and consumerism, is a fascinating combination: a movie with an almost Capraesque heart and pristine, almost stagey lighting schemes, that addresses uncomfortable moral issues with today's perspectives.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
A sentimental slice of 1950s Italian-American life that doesn't soft-pedal its characters' simmering prejudices within their insulated community, or pander to their dreams of getting out.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
A film of rare, delicate sensibility.
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| 75 |
New York Post
A charming, (mostly) briskly unsentimental love story, written, directed and acted with remarkable assurance.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
De Felitta dodges the temptations of sentiment and preachiness.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
A gentle, soulful comedy about everyday dreams and what it takes to make them come true.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
A tender and affirmative movie, if never a transporting one.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
De Felitta has taken potentially overripe material and given it real heart.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Brimming over with affection and humanity, this memory drama about the destruction of one family and the birth of another is nostalgic in a good sense: funny, bittersweet, poignant.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Joshua Katzman
Writer-director Raymond De Felitta has crafted a pleasant, low-key script that's full of small surprises, nice turns, and engaging, naturalistic dialogue, and he keeps the big, emotional family scenes, which often render this sort of material cliched and hackneyed, to a minimum.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Worth staying with for the respect it pays to its characters' emotions.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sweet-natured but overdone, over-long film.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
The sappy trappings that director Raymond De Felitta piles onto the burgeoning romance story line kills any spark that remains, despite the best efforts of the cast to keep it real.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Bighearted and wistful, but with no fresh spin or anything new to say.
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