This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like.
90
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
A wonderfully complex examination of sexual and material politics that's full of bravely provocative, gently funny, and warmly human encounters.
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
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.
A mordantly funny, clear-eyed view of an extended family's mounting dysfunction in a changing society.
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
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.
80
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
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.