Together
IFC Films | Release Date: August 24, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
84
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Universal acclaim based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Together is unabashedly about people who need people. The film's satiric skewering of '70s liberalism works because it feels emotionally authentic.
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
A wonderfully complex examination of sexual and material politics that's full of bravely provocative, gently funny, and warmly human encounters. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Moodysson captures exactly the preening narcissism and gumption of these frazzled would-be revolutionaries trying to wriggle out of their bourgeois straitjackets. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Terrifically funny and remarkably wise, a comedy that speaks volumes, without a polemical word, about the tension between rigid politics of any stripe and the imperatives of life and love.
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Aside from superb ensemble work from an 18-member cast, "Together's sense of human potential is its greatest pleasure. Read full review
90
The New York TimesDave Kehr
One of the most pleasant foreign films of the year, a funny, graceful and immensely good-natured work. Read full review
90
Rolling StonePeter Travers
This hilarious and humane film nails its subject -- not just the unshaved armpits and the lack of underwear -- and marks Moodysson as a talent to watch. Read full review
90
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Has an almost perfect-pitch grasp of those messy, idealistic, vibrant times, when everyone was trying to reinvent himself from the ground up. Read full review
90
TimeRichard Schickel
We are free to adore a sad, funny, always good-natured film that eccentrically, tolerantly explores that moment when revolutionary ardor commingled with bourgeois stolidity to form our present weirdly ambiguous culture. Read full review
90
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Together is the kind of picture that makes you feel that there are many good reasons to actually LIKE mankind. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneLoren King
Exquisitely captures the irony and hopefulness of the era. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Funny gem. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A mordantly funny, clear-eyed view of an extended family's mounting dysfunction in a changing society. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's a brilliant little microcosm of the '60s experience that, in a most gentle way, shows us how the counterculture probably was doomed from its inception. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Moodysson puts it across with a sincerity that's genuinely heartwarming, and he sets it all to a surprisingly good soundtrack culled from the Swedish rock (who knew?) of the era. Read full review
80
SlateDavid Edelstein
A scruffy delight, a movie with the happiest sort of family values. Read full review
80
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
On one level, Together is a countercultural soap opera, though played more as bittersweet comedy than as drama. Read full review
80
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Moodysson's cornball sentimentality about the many shapes of the human family is tempered by his honesty about personal frailty and the silliness of utopian living experiments. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
Moodysson's movie, one part mash note and three parts scathing piss-taker, is hugely compassionate toward the well-meaning fools in his tale, but he doesn't suffer their nonsense gladly; his film is, in large part, about grown-ups needing to grow up. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Together's portrait of its social moment is right-on. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The best thing about Together, apart from the way some of its characters grow on you even as others put you off, is the way it snatches idealism back from the brink of life-smothering orthodoxy. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It may be that Together only wants to remember a time. That it does with gentle, observant humor. If it has a message, it is that ideas imposed on human nature may be able to shape lives for a while, but in the long run, we drift back toward more conventional choices. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
This is a rare breed of crowd-pleaser: a big-hearted, generous movie that never patronizes the audience. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
A gentle, sprightly satire that pokes fun at these trendy communards but emphasizes their humanity and fallibility. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
An amiable look at a bygone time and a set of ideas about the world that once held far more power and magic than it does today. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
Free love, vegetarianism and lack of personal property are the rule. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
The actors, mainly newcomers, have an improvisational freshness well matched to the freewheeling camera work. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
A friendly movie, as scruffy and cozy as a woolen watch cap. Read full review
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