Shall We Kiss?
Music Box Films | Release Date: March 27, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Shall We Kiss? gives us storytelling as art. Emmanuel Mouret's romantic drama, in French with English subtitles, is expert, intricate, ineffably droll, ultimately provocative and entirely enchanting. Read full review
90
VarietyDerek Elley
This is upscale French entertainment at its best. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Impossibly charming and impossibly French. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterGregory Valens
Misunderstandings, new turns and stratagems mark the rest of this delightful divertimento, which navigates between burlesque and romantic comedy. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The players in this mouth-watering Gallic soufflé are so attractive, well mannered and comfortably grounded in the bourgeois world that you needn’t fear for their well-being, minor heartaches notwithstanding. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Witty, insightful portraits of hyperverbal, self-conscious young people falling in and out of love. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
It is classical in form yet fresh and spontaneous. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Features crisp dialogue and understated humor, played out by an attractive young cast. Audiences bred on Hollywood romances might find the film too chatty and contemplative. To them I say: Get over it, kids! Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
If you have a hankering for a pretty good Woody Allen movie and want to brush up on your French at the same time, Shall We Kiss? is the ticket. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Mouret not only stars (opposite a delicate Ledoyen) as the slightly schlemiely fellow in want of a woman's affection, he also wrote and directed this enticing, weightless divertissement. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Ledoyen in particular humanizes the story-within-a-story strategy. Her character's sly verbal hesitations become part of a mutual seduction, more theoretical than practical, but enticing nonetheless. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
A sensational date movie. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The whole thing's weightless: An upscale date-movie bonbon that keeps yielding pungent aftertastes. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
An engaging romantic comedy that's deeper, smarter and more pessimistic than it appears at first glance, a film with shrewd insight into the mysteries of human attraction. Read full review
70
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
The result is that Shall We Kiss? puts its viewers in a bind worthy of the lovers themselves: should we organize a Socratic symposium on the issues raised by the film, or hurl our popcorn violently at the screen? Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The very definition of "breezy." It's a featherweight romantic comedy. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
They (the characters) approach the subjects of sex and romance with a naivete so staggering, it must be an embarrassment in the greater world. Inside their hermetically sealed complacency, I suppose it's a little exciting. Read full review
50
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Bogs down in the philosophical shallow end and never quite recovers from what's clearly meant to be a deceptively light tone. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The problem is that once they do connect, their passion isn't believable. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Perhaps the film's biggest weakness is that all the characters are so naive and petty you can't really work up much fervour about who sleeps with whom. That would never be a question in a movie like "Casablanca." Read full review
50
Washington PostJan Stuart
It is as if the director had studied the comedies of Eric Rohmer and Woody Allen from top to bottom and come away with all the wrong lessons. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Painfully dunderheaded about the proclivities of the human heart. Read full review
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