Delicate, warm and worried, "Felix and Meira" is a coming-of-age film about two grown people stunted by social circumstance.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 17, 2015

This is the sort of movie whose warmth toward its characters is contagious.

| Jun 4, 2015

When is an image held for too long? At what point does a shot's duration outlast its emotional information? As ardent and earnest as it is, "Felix and Meira" is a test case.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2015

The movie approaches this mutual attraction tentatively, much as the two characters do. And that's the problem with this well-meaning but ultimately hollow film romance: You don't see it; you don't get it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 28, 2015

There's a subtext to this love story that seems to say we're all islands, in one way or another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2015

Director Maxime Giroux gets good performances from leads Martin Dubreuil and Hadas Yaron...But the romantic mood is asked to cover for too much left unsaid, unasked, and undone.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 14, 2015

"Felix and Meira" raises the question: Are we happiest with a twin spirit - or with a reverse image that completes the picture?

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2015

A viewer can be forgiven for violent eye-rolling.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 30, 2015

The result is not the most explosive -- nor organic -- romance. Still, it swirls and settles in interesting ways.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 30, 2015

[A] quiet, aching film ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2015

Giroux's refusal to pass judgment on his characters prevents us from doing so, and the film is much more powerful for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 30, 2015

"Flix and Meira" appears to be a simple movie about fitting in, acceptance and sacrifice. Yet it's so elegant and poses many different sides that it's actually a very complex film with very complex characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2015

It's always gratifying to see a movie in which an ostensibly closed-off community is depicted humanely rather than voyeuristically.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 24, 2015

Luzer Twersky as Shulem, Meira's controlling husband, is a fine example of the film's willingness to extend empathy to all of its characters, and its refusal to pigeonhole them into a black and white moral landscape.

| Apr 23, 2015

Giroux mistakes long, wordless scenes of characters gazing at each other for tenderness, but he imaginatively uses gospel music as the forbidden food of love ...

| Original Score: B | Apr 23, 2015

It may lack the heat of supposedly similar films about unlikely love, but that doesn't mean that it's short on romance. Felix and Meira's interactions are imbued with longing and desire that is impossible not be swept up in.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 19, 2015

It tells a not-especially-interesting story about a not-especially-interesting couple from two different worlds that goes on and on before reaching its not-especially-interesting conclusion.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2015

This tenderly observed love story (by the director, Maxime Giroux) isn't about religion - or its lack - but about the attraction of difference and the undeniable need to feel alive.

| Apr 16, 2015

What's missing here is the vitality and sense of release the couple's romance should bring. Felix and Meira continue to pine and mope; the movie mopes with them in exhausting, often awkwardly intrusive detail.

| Apr 16, 2015

Flix & Meira eventually proves to have more in common with Fill The Void, and with Burshtein's effort to depict Orthodox Judaism as more than just a women's prison, than it had appeared.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 16, 2015