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Jay Carr, Boston Globe: Who'd have thought one could fall in love with a Dogme 95 film? But I have, and this is it. Skoal and bellissima! Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: In Italian for Beginners, Scherfig has failed at making her story and characters seem ordinary while succeeding at making a very ordinary film. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Scherfig clearly has fondness for these characters, even as they stumble. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Unlike lots of Hollywood fluff, this has layered, well-developed characters and some surprises. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A rarity: a humane picture about modern romance among believable adults. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Buoyed by the sly comic edges that the likable cast members impart to their characters. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: If there was a flu shot for the blues, it might come in the form of this embraceable ode to loneliness and love regained. Read more
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: There are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected (and gentle) way. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A Danish Nora Ephron movie in Dogma drag, and the result is even more precious than it is tedious. Read more
Don Druker, Globe and Mail: For Hollywood, love is the province of an aristocracy of the Beautiful and the Blessed. But in the world of Italian For Beginners, love is for us. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gives Italian for Beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictably formulaic. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Despite the drawbacks of the Dogma approach, Italian for Beginners speaks to the universal subject of love in a way that will delight most viewers. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A charming Danish comedy. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Scherfig, the writer-director, has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar. Yes, soar. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Scherfig, who has had a successful career in TV, tackles more than she can handle. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Although Scherfig occasionally strays too far into the absurd, the movie is a refreshing change from formulaic romantic comedies. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: This charming but slight tale has warmth, wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A funny, relationship-driven ensemble piece that takes the chill out of the Danish winter with a snuggly blanket of humanism. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The result is that rarest of things -- a heartwarming love story that bears not a trace of cheap feeling or false emotion. Read more