The originality of Innocence makes it stand apart from the romantic pack.
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Remarkable in several big ways.
75
USA TodayMike Clark
USA TodayMike Clark
No situation could be more human, and it's one the youth-dominated film industry rarely touches.
70
New Times (L.A.)Bill Gallo
New Times (L.A.)Bill Gallo
Paul Cox's admirers are sure to embrace this latest eruption of sincerity and sensitivity.
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A beautifully acted, intensely felt story.
63
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's reassuring to see love and sex in one's 70s depicted as fully replenishing. At the same time, it's sobering to think that it's no easier in the twilight of life to make rational decisions regarding the heart.
63
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
Innocence is a gentle love story, one that touches on an issue of great sensitivity -- sexuality in old age.
Mostly mediocre melodrama, though the actors suffering over love's labors lost are quite fine.
40
Chicago ReaderRonnie Scheib
Chicago ReaderRonnie Scheib
It's all so overdetermined -- each encounter of the present-day lovers mirrors some moment from the long-ago day when they parted -- that it reduces their whole affair to a matter of last-minute revisionism.