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A.O. Scott, New York Times: Ms. Polley, as a writer, a director of actors and a constructor of images, excels at managing the idiosyncrasies and contradictions of her characters so that our knowledge of them is both intimate and mined with potential surprise. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen both hit career highs as a Toronto married couple smothered by their own coziness. But somehow, the material doesn't seem ambitious enough for Polley. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: [It] often feels thin and self-conscious. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: It tries to do so many things at once that it can't hit many of its marks cleanly. But at least it's never boring, and rarely predictable. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: If uncompromising honesty is the quality you seek for a film, Michelle Williams is your go-to star. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A color-drenched story of lust, love, and infidelity, it suffers from a vagueness that may be the point but that feels accidental. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Unfortunately for Polley, Take This Waltz is a good film serving mainly to remind us that Away From Her is a great one. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Polley wonders the same thing in nearly every scene, no matter who's in it. Is a comfortable marriage really marriage enough? Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Margot comes across as such an elusive and unsympathetic twit that you wonder why we should care about her. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Both the small moments and the end product of Waltz are quietly sublime. Read more
William Goss, Film.com: Boasts many keenly felt moments, but it's never quite more than the sum of its admittedly tender parts. Read more
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: This sophomore feature is a stumble backwards in terms of maturity. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Somehow it is the waiting - for the fall that you expect is coming, for the marriage you figure will fall apart - that makes "Take This Waltz" one to make room for on your dance card. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Polley (who's been an actress herself) never judges these people she's created. Instead, she depicts the giddy, fleeting and illusory nature of new love, and lets us get caught up in it, too. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: No one's a cliche; no one speaks dialogue the viewer could have muttered a beat or two ahead of the movie; no one hews to a mode of behavior fabricated to explain away his or her irrational behavior. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Your best option, perhaps, is to zone out from the implausible kinks in the setup... This will leave you free to savor the compositions and the melted-candy color schemes. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's about ... the realization that sometimes, before you can learn anything about other people, you need to learn something about yourself. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: It's a shame Polley drowns the vitally mundane in so much indie quirk, because her committed leads work hard to create a touching familiarity together. Read more
Sara Stewart, New York Post: This movie is bathed in bright hues with a sweaty haze; it feels lush, almost overripe. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Williams lives and breathes her role, Kirby is charming and real, and you actually start to ache and empathize with Rogen - the emptiness and heartache he conveys when Lou and Margot finally thrash things out is crushing. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Take This Waltz takes a wrong term late in the proceedings as it hammers home a central theme in a hurried and awkward manner, but the film's emotional truth and honesty allows us to forgive a great many flaws. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I have great admiration for [Williams] as an actress, but this story might have been better told with a less lovable star. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: "Take This Waltz" is frank, erotic, often very funny and sometimes startling, with an underlying tragic sensibility. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: At its worst, Polley's style veers toward the cornball. Yet, in the broad outlines of her story, she has clearly created something with a lot of hard truth. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: This romantic drama, starring the always-extraordinary Michelle Williams as a restless married woman contemplating an affair with her neighbor, is chock-full of individual moments of great power and beauty, including visual beauty. Read more
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: In "Take This Waltz," Polley doesn't fill the gap. She just makes life on either side of it both attractive and a drag. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The premise is undermined by casual pacing and a protagonist who seems not 28, but 18, or younger. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: A play of love and lust that evolves on patches of steamy pavement. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: Despite a few tonal and structural missteps, this intelligent, perceptive drama proves as intimately and gratifyingly femme-focused as Polley's 2006 debut, Away From Her. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Thoughtfully probes the pitfalls of coupledom and third-party threats. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: In the end, it's a story of misplaced faith. In what? Not love exactly, but in the rush of infatuation, and the illusion that this feeling can be maintained, indefinitely, without crashing. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Brilliant performances in a smart, insightful film. Read more