Summer of '42 1971

Vincent Canby, New York Times: "Summer of '42" is a memory movie, written, directed and acted with such uncommon good humor that I don't think you'll be put off by its sweet soft-focus, at least until you start analyzing it afterwards. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Nostalgia is used as a distancing device -- to keep us safely insulated from the boy's immediate grief, love, and passion. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: It forever misses, unlike American Graffiti, the heady sexual climate of adolescence to concentrate on the circumstances of the sex act itself. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Summer of '42 has a large amount of charm and tenderness; it also has little dramatic economy and much eye-exhausting photography which translates to forced and artificial emphasis on a strungout story. Read more