| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 76/100 | Dec 16, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2002

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

A gimmicky yet remarkably spry and overall enjoyable tapestry about the 'random interconnectedness' of life in general and romance in particular.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 21, 2002

Discreet, delicate and humane: a sweet butterfly of a movie that beats up a cinematic windstorm of life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2002

A mild but engaging romance, the charms of which come at you sideways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2002

It strives mightily to convince us that the Chaos Theory rules us, yet everything in it feels preordained.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2002

The idea, after all, is that people don't have free will, and who wants to watch puppets, however adorable?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2002

Each little action, as we see, causes something bigger to happen, resulting in not exactly a tidal wave, but a happy sense of cinematic pleasure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2002

It's a delight to watch the plot unfold, and to become aware of how a small, random action by one person can impact the life of another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2002

It's charmless and as against the gentle grain of the New Wave French comedies of the past few years as it's conceivable to be.

| Original Score: D | Mar 7, 2002

An utterly delightful fable of romantic destiny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2002

One look at Tautou's Irene and love has a face, if not a name.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2002

Occasionally alternates between inspired and facile, but balances its romantic notions with a touch of cynicism.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2002

Overall the film is well crafted and pleasantly head-snapping.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 8, 2002

Ultimately feels like tiny films glued together by events that often test plausibility.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2002

Sheer mechanism propels Happenstance, but the numerous characters and storylines flow and converge in a gracefully unpredictable and witty manner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2002