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By Michael Posner (18) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 11 Apr 2013

A delicate pearl of a movie, Like Someone in Love is thus a meditative dance along the ambiguous borders of truth and illusion…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 10 Apr 2013

Kiarostami's apparent simplicity masks serious complexity…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 31 Mar 2013

The problem with Like Someone in Love is that, while we can see the world through their eyes, we rarely access how they think or feel about it…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 28 Mar 2013

Kiarostami lets the moments between Akiko and Takashi unfold naturally, as these characters from different worlds find common bonds…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Mar 2013

Kiarostami is masterful in his layering of space, using glass walls, mirrors, and, in one instance, the aligned side windows of parked cars…

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By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 15 Mar 2013

This is a movie about love - how much we need it, how we go wrong in the way we pursue it, and how one world's ideas about it are passing while…

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By Nathan Southern (20) for TV Guide (1,527) on 15 Mar 2013

It would be difficult to overstate the success of the bulk of this picture…

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By Leah Churner (24) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Mar 2013

The characters’ painful inability to connect only endears them to us, and somehow the film seems, like any human object of our affection…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 15 Mar 2013

Maybe it all serves a purpose, but a movie about empty people doesn't necessarily have to feel empty itself…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 14 Mar 2013

Think of it as the cinematic equivalent of a short story, rather than a novel, that offers a brief and intriguing glimpse into the lives of…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 14 Mar 2013

Like Someone in Love meanders with intention toward a bittersweet resolution, but then pulls the rug out from under you in a cruelly ambiguous shot…

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By Jeff Shannon (255) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 14 Mar 2013

A Rorschach test of our own responses to the intimate drama unfolding before us…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 14 Mar 2013

The new film is slender, and it plays obliquely with the style of the 20th-century Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu: simple shots of simple people…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Mar 2013

Like Someone in Love is not a complicated story, but in Kiarostami’s telling, it is a rich one, and a rewarding one, too…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 14 Mar 2013

I came away from it as if I had spent an evening contemplating a handsome abstract canvas…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 14 Mar 2013

Think of it as the cinematic equivalent of a short story, rather than a novel, that offers a brief and intriguing glimpse into the lives of…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Mar 2013

In his second movie filmed outside of Iran, writer/director Abbas Kiarostami has given us an Eastern counterpoint to his Western Certified…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Mar 2013

There are some limited rewards in seeing the consequences and complexities that result from the characters' deceptions and assumed roles, but…

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By Dave White (762) for Movies.com (1,002) on 04 Mar 2013

Ambiguity haters, take note: you will not find the easy answers you're looking for with Abbas Kiarostami…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 01 Mar 2013

Slow and imperturbably bookish, this film slowly reveals the dark and threatening side of life in the big city…

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