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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Good work in a minor key. Read more
TIME Magazine: [Penn] has transformed a charming shaggy-dog story into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era. Read more
Variety: There are occasional flashes of wry humor and some rib-tickling sequences. But they are all too few. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Penn's genius overtakes the dropout romance, like a final post-bacchanal hangover that suggests liberation as an El Dorado dream. Read more