Rom-coms could stand to take notes from its earnest, intense sense of compassion and depth of feeling for its main character’s conflicted affections.

| Mar 4, 2025

Crossing Delancey is an inoffensive romantic drama with little drama and dashes of comedy, mainly from Grandma Ida. These quiet, romantic, low-stakes films are a rare treat these days...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2025

Crossing Delancey is a charming film that’s full of energy and style.

| Feb 25, 2025

Crossing Delancey is a beautifully made Jewish romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2025

Amy Irving is just delightful in this film. It's one of my favorite films.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 15, 2025

It is predictable, but its the predictable nature of romantic comedies that allow them to feel so comfortable and welcoming.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 10, 2025

From its first romantic encounter, as two pairs of eyes lock across a crowded room, to its last tremulous one, Crossing Delancey is unqualified pleasure, bound on every side by love.

| May 16, 2023

Miss Irving, who's in virtually every scene, gives Izzy a refreshing worldliness, a hint of disappointment and a hard-won wisdom that banish any trace of ingenuousness from the role.

| May 16, 2023

The implausible and the irresistible come joyfully together.

| May 16, 2023

Vulpine Riegert, a terrific under-player in such films as Local Hero and Animal House, is a phenomenon. It's in Riegert's careful modulations of tone, his knack for making understatements emphatic, that he gives dignity and intelligence to Sam.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2023

Crossing Delancey is a small, unexpected treasure. It's a feel-good movie that lifts you up without insulting your intelligence or pandering to your soft side.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2023

Silver is a filmmaker with a wonderful capacity for creating fully realized characters on screen, characters that are worthy of an audience's affection.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2023

Crossing Delancey is a generously friendly comedy, well-acted and directed. Irving's graceful performance and Riegert's solid one bring depth to what is essentially another light comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2023

I don't know when I've seen a movie with more warmth, more love. And while it's sometimes hokey, and usually predictable, it's a film that is filled with charm from beginning to end.

| May 16, 2023

Crossing Delancey is a happy injection of optimism to which few will be immune.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2023

Crossing Delancey is a smart and very funny movie about the folly of preconceptions.

| May 16, 2023

[Crossing Delancey] is an odd duck of a movie. Superficially charming, it is at once cruel and warm-hearted, artificial and real. It has a soft, weepy heart but it's also trying hard to be tough -- and ends up being enervating, but likably so.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2023

Too often, Irving has had to breathe life into roles for which she seems to have been chosen because of her lovely aura and presence. Here, though, she gets her hands on a rich, emotional character, and the results are most impressive.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2023

It's the kind of sweet and simple romance that makes you want to marry the next guy you see.

| Original Score: B | May 16, 2023

I refuse to give the distributor a blurb saying Crossing Delancey is this year's Moonstruck because I think that Crossing Delancey is better than Moonstruck.

| May 16, 2023