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A.O. Scott, New York Times: It examines, with compassion and clarity, a young woman's discovery of passion and also of the pain, disappointment and partial wisdom that follow. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: There's nothing like a film about wayward passions to remind you how differently people feel things. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Hansen-Love films with an eye toward discovering and rediscovering these characters in pure moments of simple, poignant humanity - wading in a river, clambering over rocks. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is an easy movie to spoil. It's rather plotless. But things happen in precisely the way that life happens. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [A] acute drama of young romance and passionate sex, as well as what you learn when you lose both. Read more
Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter: Arthouse audiences could drink this down like a glass of Chardonnay. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: When we watch Hansen-Love's films, we're not only experiencing a life unfolding before us, we're also realizing what a great privilege it is to be able to do that. Read more
Scott Tobias, NPR: Goodbye First Love hangs a wealth of small observational moments on a structure so firm that a curtain could drop between acts. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Is it "annoying," "talky' and "complacent," or "beautiful and deep"? Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: "Goodbye First Love" showcases two young women with bright futures. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: "Goodbye First Love" is fascinating. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: This is a rigorously crafted film steeped in the French tradition, but it's meant to be a sensual and emotional experience, not a verbal or analytical one. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Goodbye First Love" is a very lifelike film in the sense that life does not often imitate entertainment. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Goodbye First Love" is like a postcard from a lost Eden, a painfully pure oasis where we're not allowed to linger. Read more
Jon Frosch, The Atlantic: The film is seriously tarnished by three blandly conceived main characters and some sulky, wooden acting. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: 'Goodbye First Love' offers a rewarding lesson that life isn't like a movie and that, when a movie is like life, it can come with life's banalities and frustrations as well as its surprises and pleasures. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: Writer-director, Mia Hansen-Love, whose third feature this is, has addressed her subject with complete emotional confidence. Read more
Boyd van Hoeij, Variety: The deeply satisfying third feature of Gallic scribe-helmer Mia Hansen-Love. Read more
Karina Longworth, Village Voice: Goodbye First Love loosely fictionalizes lived experience in order to capture the ineffable-in this case, emotional maturation or, as Sullivan phrases it, "becom[ing] a real person." Read more