Let It Rain
IFC Films | Release Date: June 18, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Jaoui neatly, gently, firmly slips political commentary into Let It Rain's articulate mayhem. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Let It Rain touches on class issues, feminism, immigration and the particular challenges facing a single, driven career woman in her 40s. But it's graceful in presenting its ideas, and what emerges is not a polemic but a kind of snapshot of modern-day concerns. Read full review
90
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Needlessly complicated, life already has more than enough petty dramas. Let It Rain may not be funny in a ha-ha sense, but it gave me an amused open-mouthed appreciation of life’s absurdities, including unanticipated nuisances like bad weather. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This beautifully strange and affecting comedy, which Agnès Jaoui directed from a screenplay she wrote with her husband, Mr. Bacri, is about men who are weak and insecure, and one woman, Agathe, played superbly by Ms. Jaoui, coming to terms with the price of being strong. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubSam Adams
There’s not much left to chew on when the movie is over; when Resnais adapted Jaoui and Bacri’s scripts, he added a visual counter-narrative that’s absent from Jaoui’s more functional approach. But a passing delight is a delight all the same. Read full review
75
NPRElla Taylor
Jaoui's insights into the human struggle to find meaningful ways to live may not be especially profound, but she brings a warm particularity and a tough but tender compassion to her studies of congenital human discontent and the crazy, often self-defeating ways in which we strive to complete ourselves. If that's bourgeois, we might all plead guilty. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
At times Let It Rain recalls one of those Katharine Hepburn comedies where the New Woman gets cut down to size so as not to intimidate the Old-School Men. Yet the film so likably deflates the pompous and pumps up the humble that it's hard not to like. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The interview sessions are all disastrous in one way or another; Let It Rain is at its wittiest when Michel flails around, grousing about his own divorce and child custody troubles without ever quite asking his interview subject an actual question Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
As simple and straightforward a movie as one is likely to find in theaters today. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young
This is very much an actors’ film, not least because director-scripter Agnes Jaoui also appears in front of the camera in the well-seasoned role of Agathe Villanova. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
This wistful little film is at just the right temperature. Read full review
70
VarietyJordan Mintzer
Despite an initial forecast of smart laughs and witty tete-a-tetes, the French dramedy Let It Rain winds up being a partly cloudy affair that lacks the cohesiveness of Agnes Jaoui’s two previous features, "The Taste of Others" and "Look at Me." Read full review
63
New York PostKyle Smith
Reflective but only mildly engaging dramedy. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineRichard Mowe
The performances are excellent, even if none of the characters are all that likeable or involving. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid Fear
While her focus has drifted away from the upper middle class, Jaoui’s sensibility remains rather middlebrow; there’s the distinct feeling that she’s preaching solely, albeit with impressive subtlety, to the same bourgie choir as before. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Aiming to be a seriocomic movie of ideas but desperate not to offend or challenge, Let It Rain soon settles for being another smug comedy of bourgeois manners. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Like her previous feature, "Look at Me" (2004), this relationship drama is mature and intelligent, but the character conflicts are so decorously handled that after a while the whole enterprise begins to seem more like a good waiter than a good story. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
It's all a little insular and very conversational, but the setting is cozy and the performances all pleasantly low-key. Read full review
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