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Vincent Canby, New York Times: It's a carefully composed, elegant, sometimes prescient work, a small-scale love story set against a background of tumultuous social and political change. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: It's a 'little people' comedy in the Frank Capra vein Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: It's like looking for footprints, tracking the master this apprentice was to become. Read more