Gloomy Sunday
Arrow Releasing | Release Date: November 7, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A beautiful period piece, set against one of the world's glorious cities, adding poignancy. Twists and turns heighten a gradually accruing effect, building to a risky moment of truth, a coup de théâtre that is as daring as it is satisfying. Read full review
80
TimeRichard Schickel
The film is high romance, rather like those American movies of the 1940s -- people snatching at happiness in a world aflame. We don't make them anymore -- stupid us --but we ought to be glad someone does. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
Moments of black comedy break up the melodrama – a newsreel depicts the song's "victims" and a Nazi secretary rages against her Duden grammar manual – but the overall tone is still that of a four-alarm weeper. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Suicides are proliferating in the city -- is the song to blame, or is it the tenor of the times? Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's an old-fashioned romantic triangle, told with schmaltzy music on the sound track and a heroine with a smoky singing voice, and then the Nazis turn up and it gets very complicated and heartbreaking. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The fine cast, the elegant settings and the swoony title song somehow draw you in. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Strange, compelling and hard to classify, it's both a romance and a character study, and it's set against a historical backdrop. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Long on atmosphere and Old World charm. Read full review
70
VarietyDerek Elley
The iconic '30s song "Gloomy Sunday" gets a distinctive celluloid setting in this well-played, cleverly scripted pic in which music and character are inextricably combined. Read full review
70
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
It's possible that Gloomy Sunday is more "significant" than it is compelling. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
It's old-fashioned, sometimes accomplished, syrupy and, at its intermittent best, absorbing. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Is it possible for an historically -based Holocaust movie to be schmaltzy? This one sure comes close. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Lushly engaging, even if it covers some of the same ground as ''The Pianist'' with less artistry and more melodrama. Read full review
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