| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Shamelessly sentimental but beautifully handled story of septuagenarian love features two sublime lead performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Director Marcos Carnevale makes sure to get his ticket punched at every station in this journey through cinematic convention.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 19, 2008

In the end, only the veteran actors playing Elsa and Fred make the movie watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2008

Who would have guessed that, in this age of excess and one-upmanship, when bigger is always better, the year's most romantic screen kiss would last a mere two seconds.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 1, 2008

The dream fulfillment seems more silly than romantic, and it brings the movie to an abrupt end that is wholly unsatisfying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2008

This starts to get interesting in the homestretch, as the woman's chronic deception begins to catch up with her, but for the most part it's an extended Geritol commercial.

| Aug 1, 2008

Elsa & Fred feels not substantial enough to bear the weight of its themes. It dissolves like cotton candy, making proper digestion impossible.

| Jul 31, 2008

For some, the movie will be an emotional paean to love at the twilight of life; to others, though, it's a contrived, manipulative film calculatedly sentimental and -- except for poor Alfredo -- totally false to life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2008

When one thinks of on-screen chemistry, rarely, if ever, do you think of characters in their seventies.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2008

This little gem will have the mature moviegoer completely under its spell.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2008

Elsa & Fred is worth seeing just to admire how Argentine writer-director Marcos Carnevale avoids so much as a whiff of condescension.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2008

A sweet but inconsequential romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2008

Elsa is obsessed with the "Fontana di Trevi" sequence from La Dolce Vita, but that's only a reminder that the aging Fellini once accomplished far more effective films about old age and second chances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 17, 2008

Love is said to be blind, but this sweet Spanish romance suggests it may also be ageless.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 1, 2008

Convincingly proves even to teens (not likely to be in the audience, unfortunately), that you're never too old for romance.

| Original Score: B | Jun 28, 2008