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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 29 Nov 2004

Jeunet's reliance on magic-realist devices just falls flat, and Tautou's character -- a lame girl who plays the tuba -- is treated with the…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Nov 2004

Mathilde is described in the narration as hopeful. Tautou's Mathilde, however, is more angry and dour…

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By Charles Taylor (365) for Salon.com (2,725) on 27 Nov 2004

The mixture of a trickster director and classic movie conventions works better than you'd expect it to…

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By Timothy Knight (332) for Reel.com (1,232) on 26 Nov 2004

This ravishing, archetypal romance has such vitality and incandescent charm that it all comes together beautifully, without ever degenerating…

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By Emily Blunt (210) for Blunt Review (210) on 26 Nov 2004

A Very Long Engagement is an inspired romantic yarn…

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By John Venable (339) for Supercala.com (431) on 26 Nov 2004

Fits together almost too perfectly, but you'll be able to forgive that. It's a wonderful film that is absolutely beautiful…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 25 Nov 2004

So well made that the horrors of trench warfare have all the impact of a beautifully-dressed, slightly morbid department store window…

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By Arthur Lazere (236) for culturevulture.net (793) on 24 Nov 2004

There's such an excess of plot and detail that characterization is neglected--none of these characters is more than single-dimensional…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 24 Nov 2004

There are some movie couples that just look like they belong together - Mathilde and Manech are one such couple…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for FilmJerk.com (622) on 23 Nov 2004

Engagement is a powerful and vivid motion picture, but rarely, if ever, does it capture the heart…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 22 Nov 2004

Ultimately too manipulative to achieve true lasting greatness…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 19 Nov 2004

Combining the uncompromised bloody horror of war with the aftermath mystery of a heroine just trying to find the boy she loves…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 14 Nov 2004

A Very Long Engagement offers more evidence of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's affection for serpentine storytelling, replete with offbeat characters,…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Nov 2004

Enjoying the film depends on how much one can stand visionary carnival barker Jean-Pierre Jeunet's brand of impatiently imaginative, aggressively…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 11 Nov 2004

Like an average looking guy who drives a stunning, fire-engine red Ferrari, the movie's incredibly gorgeous visuals makes the story feel almost…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 08 Nov 2004

[Jeunet's] choppy, cheeky filmmaking style simply isn't suited to this remarkable wartime tale about the tenacity of love…

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By Jon Popick (633) for Planet Sick-Boy (616) on 04 Nov 2004

I enjoyed the film immensely, but felt it could have been one of 2004's best if 15 or so minutes had been carefully cobbled out of it…

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