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Janet Maslin, New York Times: It's as affectionate, big-hearted and creaky as any film that ever graced Radio City Music Hall, with leisureliness and dime-store philosophizing to match. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: An extraordinary movie that loves music and loves the people it is about, and has the patience to do justice to both. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: As charming and fanciful as it is impossible to pigeonhole. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: An intimate and amusing adaptation of Bernice Rubens' novel. Read more