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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinSets you nearer than theater permits -- and further back than most movies dare. A magic vantage.
- 80New Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerNew Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerThe film is worth seeing for Sorvino alone. The actress hasn't been this good since Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite," a role that couldn't be more dissimilar.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe always reliable Kingsley and Shaw are hilarious, and if the movie isn't quite a triumph, it's still far better than the junk food currently cluttering movie screens.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe story, based on an 18th century French play by Pierre Marivaux, is the sort of thing that inspired operas and Shakespeare comedies: It's all premise, no plausibility, and so what?
- 60Film ThreatMichael DequinaFilm ThreatMichael DequinaIndeed, a triumph of love: love of performance, love of joy, and, above all else, love of love itself.
- 60Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonPlayful as it is, Clare Peploe's adaptation of Pierre Marivaux's romantic comedy coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt could have been something special, but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director Clare Peploe's misunderstanding of Marivaux's rhythms, and Mira Sorvino's limitations as a classical actress.
- 50The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensTriumph of Love, Marivaux's 270-year-old romantic comedy, is a beguiling trifle, a gauzy, teasing inquiry into the fungibility of emotions.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyHowever charming Kingsley and Shaw are as the lovestruck pawns and Sorvino as the advancing queen, the premise is less playful than played-out.
- 50The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsShaw and Kingsley both create crisp, comic performances, but Sorvino remains a problem throughout. Her physical transformation falls short of the "Boys Don't Cry" standard, to put it mildly.