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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It is not every musical that features lung cancer and James Gandolfini singing along with Engelbert Humperdinck to that every-day-I-wake-up 1960s standard 'A Man Without Love.' Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Romance and Cigarettes is a dark-red valentine to the way that pop music gets under our skin. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This singing-along-to-the-radio effect has a dingy charm that honors the blue-collar Italian setting, yet Turturro spoils it by turning the movie into a hip star party. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes is the real thing, a film that breaks out of Hollywood jail with audacious originality, startling sexuality, heartfelt emotions, and an anarchic liberty. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: While it looks like it was great fun to film, it's regrettably little fun to watch. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movies need more of this kind of crazy. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: How weird is John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes? Almost indescribably weird, though also strangely involving. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: With Walken around, hair up high, of course there are fleeting moments of fascinating weirdness, but even then, you're still moderately embarrassed for the cast. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: In a season seasoned with off-beat originality in the movies, from Lars and the Real Girl to I'm Not There, you still have not seen anything quite like John Turturro's extraordinary Romance and Cigarettes. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: It shouldn't work, but there's something beautiful in Turturro's non-judgmental, almost affectionate, exposure of human love as the courting dance of clueless primates Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: It's karaoke with a vengeance, the circle of the inferno that Dante could never in his wildest imaginings anticipate. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: If you're game for something different, it's worth a few giggles. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: It has cult item stamped all over it, and fans of (severely) experimental cinema might see it as a revelation. Most others will find that watching this movie is like having your senses beaten with a rake. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Romance and Cigarettes is lewd and it's lurid and looks to be a lost pop opera, but it has more vitality than anything else out there. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Romance & Cigarettes is not your usual drama about a troubled marriage. It attempts something startlingly original by melding light opera with soap opera. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Turturro pulls off a very tricky balancing act, by trusting in the expertise of his performers and by infusing the whole film with energy and affection. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The movie comes on as a novelty item, meaning it's so full of disparate parts and so unable to approach coherence, it just sits there and burns out. Read more