A Very Long Engagement
Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: November 26, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
31
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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60
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Boldly aspirational. It's Jeunet's stab at "Paths of Glory," dipped in a sepia bath and halfway wrenched into a women's picture. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
For all of Audrey Tautou's considerable charm in the title role, Jeunet's need for a well-ordered universe proved as suffocating and exhausting as being trapped on an amusement-park ride. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Only when Jodie Foster materializes midstory, delivering a beautiful, pocket-size performance as the mistress of one of the condemned men, does the film spring to life. Read full review
60
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Engagement simply disappears inside its own enormous, intricate and ambitious design. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Sacrifices compelling drama for gratuitous whimsy and big-budget spectacle. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Shuttles between schoolboy humor, calculated savagery and, at the end, a rank sentimentalism in which love all too easily conquers all. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverMelissa Levine
The result is nothing but allusive and memorial. And boring. This film is boring, at least partly because it is trying desperately to be big. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The elements are all here for something spectacular – and in brilliant bursts, Jeunet really gets it – but in the end, all that potential is sunk by a terminally confused tone and milquetoast pairing of lovers. Pity that. Read full review
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