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Only Human
Magnolia Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for some sexual content, nudity and language
Starring
Norma Aleandro,
Guillermo Toledo,
María Botto,
Marián Aguilera,
Fernando Ramallo,
Alba Molinero,
Max Berliner,
and
Mario Martín
This gloriously irreverent family comedy fuses brilliant characterization and unrelenting humor to rework the age-old story of meeting the parents with a hilarious modern twist. (Magnolia Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Foreign
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Dominic Harari
Teresa Pelegri
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Dominic Harari
Teresa Pelegri
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 17, 2006
Theatrical: June 16, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Spain / Argentina / Portugal / UK |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Spanish / Hebrew / English / Arabic (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Seres Queridos"; Best Film and Best Screenplay, 2004 Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Cheery, expertly constructed Spanish farce.

80
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
As directors, Harari and De Pelegri have just the right light-fingered glissando touch. Not a moment sags. Their cast relishes and fulfills the tempo.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Winningly human, and wonderfully funny.
75
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
The film's snappy action and frank sexuality are reminiscent of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," while the mordant humor and conflicting identities are vintage Allen.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
There's a manic quality to the film that may wear you down. But at least you won't be bored.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A dinner-from-hell comedy about a pretty Jewish Spaniard who brings a nice Palestinian guy home to her outspoken Madrid family.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
There's nothing subtle about Pelegri and Harari's culture-clash romp, but it's sometimes frantically funny; that it's thoroughly forgettable is an issue only if you expect it to do more than poke easy fun at the thorny issues it raises.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Moves along briskly, with several laugh-out-loud moments.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The slapstick gets a little too silly, and a rushed ending feels unsatisfying. But everyone whose family boasts an excess of opinions will relate.

70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A movie that is never elegant but is often hysterically funny, and maintains a rabbit-on-speed pace that Hollywood comedy long ago abandoned.

70
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
Intermittently hilarious.

70
The New York Times
Laura Kern
A vigorously paced modern screwball comedy written and directed by the husband-and-wife team Dominic Harari and Teresa De Pelegrí, explores family values, and Leni and Rafi's mismatched cultural backgrounds, with a refreshingly light touch.

70
LA Weekly
Jim Ridley
A Spanish dinner-theater comedy, this intermittently hilarious contraption by the husband-wife team of Dominic Harari and Teresa de Pelegri heaves Jewish-Palestinian conflict onto a prop-room table already groaning with loaded guns, impromptu sex toys, a wounded duck paddling in a bidet, and a brick of frozen soup that doubles as a sandbag for unlucky pedestrians below.

70
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Mines the comic possibilities of the classic setup of introducing the fiancé to the family, with results that are playful, charming and surprisingly thoughtful.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Only Human, a Spanish farce, has absolutely no business being as laugh-out-loud funny as it often is.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Despite a strong start, Only Human loses its grip on all that merry energy and comes to feel more like a sitcom than like "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" or "Some Like It Hot," to name just some of its forebears.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Don't expect a meaningful resolution, just a bouncy comedy with some hilarious moments in the stray ricochets.

63
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
Unfortunately, the film is also at times dull, though the scale definitely tilts toward enjoyment. Quality balance aside, who doesn't want to enjoy a few hearty laughs? Only Human provides a few of those.

60
Chicago Reader
Joshua Katzman
Toledo is very funny, and there are some hilarious comic bits, but writer-directors Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri drag in several distracting subplots, turning this 2004 Spanish comedy into a scattershot affair.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
For a film that pads out such broad slapstick with toilet humor, obnoxious-child antics, and even cute-animal business, Only Human is surprisingly enjoyable, thanks to the filmmakers' relatively low-key, Pedro Almodóvar-style approach.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Attempts to achieve a Pedro Almodovar-level of humor without much success... Degenerating into witless slapstick.


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