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

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

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

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

It's a clumsy trifle with an amiable aura. This aura seems mainly to emanate from Amy Irving who, as Izzy, has a captivating stillness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2023

In the end, Joan Micklin Silver's winning comedy is about choices, choosing and being chosen, about the way in which life is defined by relationships, not by the careless labels in which its sometimes confined.

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

Crossing Delancey is a fake, but some of the small social details are nicely observed, and the movie has some charm.

| May 16, 2023

An endearing and unpretentious movie, Crossing Delancey is filled with affection and a sweetness that is healing.

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

The locations may be specific, but the warm and sincere emotions are universal.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 16, 2023

Amy Irving makes Izzy a compellingly confused but determined figure in Crossing Delancey, an appealing stage-into-screen adaptation.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 15, 2023

You know how this story's going to end. It's obvious from the start that this isn't a movie that is about breaking cinematic convention. But every once in a while, as in this case, the characters are enough.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 15, 2023

Much of the pleasure of Crossing Delancey lies in watching the performers fill out their slimly written roles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2023

If you can wait through the corny parts, you'll find a sweet movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2023

Susan Sandler's script takes this same Old World view of urban feminism. Isabelle would be emotionally independent, but the movie knows better: she needs a man.

| May 15, 2023

Crossing Delancey is ah old-fashioned film pretending to be a challenging look at the Modem Woman. Yet, for all its corny cuteness and stereotyped characterisations, it is engagingly acted, sometimes quite witty and ultimately seductive.

| May 10, 2023

The movie is sweet-toothed to a fault... But there is also much scatterbrained charm.

| May 10, 2023

It is, without question, one of the nicest, most intelligent movies in town just now... Perhaps the film is not really hard-edged enough, but its muted drama is still extraordinarily effective.

| May 9, 2023

Crossing Delancey is a joy of a romantic comedy. It's got warmth, brains, heart and humor. So what's not to like?

| May 9, 2023

I found much of it oppressive and wished Ms Silver would cross town not just Delancey for her next picture.

| May 9, 2023