Moscow, Belgium
NeoClassics Films | Release Date: December 19, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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90
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBernard Besserglik
Highly enjoyable romantic comedy. Read full review
80
VarietyJordan Mintzer
Accomplished freshman outing by Flemish TV director Christophe van Rompaey features a knockout perf from actress Barbara Sarafian ("8½ Women"). Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
An uncommon comedy that is fairly serious most of the time. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
There are no big-name stars. Barbara Serafian, who is excellent, has a thin, eclectic resume. She looks a little like Frances McDormand. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleJustin Berton
Underscores that choices in love are rarely clean and easy, and more often than not, are poignantly funny. Read full review
70
Washington PostJohn Anderson
What's universally hilarious is the way the inhabitants of "Moscow" come so close to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
At worst is inoffensive. But that's the point. When you're making a movie about people whose lives are torn up in this way, inoffensiveness is, well, offensive. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJosh Rosenblatt
Feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
I wanted to keep watching. I wanted to leave. In between, I prayed for the piano-accordion soundtrack to silence itself for just one scene (it's like being trapped in a little French restaurant that refuses to close). Read full review
50
Village VoiceNicolas Rapold
We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This Belgian comedy suffers from the fact that its mismatched lovers are so consistently unpleasant; it catches fire only in the scenes between the mother and the daughter. Read full review
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