Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 2, 2012

Affectionate, funny and ultimately moving, Burman's fourth feature embraces humanity in the Argentinean marketplace.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 15, 2007

Does what it sets out to do--celebrate the good nature of those people who, despite life's difficulties, remain true to their loved ones, their friends, and themselves.

| Feb 22, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2006

The film's moments of whimsy and its wry comic insights into one man's Prufrockian drifting and yearning through life add up to a charming oddity.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2005

film that gives ultimate impression of missed opportunity

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 12, 2005

As visually captivating as it is emotionally engaging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2005

The film's sophistication -- and it is an immensely sophisticated film -- lies in its refusal to tuck in too tightly its shirttails.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2005

Plays out in a low-key but charming fashion.

| Original Score: B | Jun 3, 2005

This is an amusing movie with a warm fuzzy ending that makes you feel like you just been hugged.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 3, 2005

A small film whose structural weaknesses are largely redeemed by its big heart.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 1, 2005

Burman explored this world before in 2000's Waiting for the Messiah, but in Lost Embrace, his maturity results in a much tighter and engaging film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2005

Hendler's center-stage performance can be considered refreshingly natural or annoyingly brooding, depending on your tolerance for cynical self-analysis played for comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2005

A quirky comedy from Argentina along the lines of 온라인카지노추천's Arrested Development.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2005

May be the least exciting movie ever set in a lingerie shop.

| Apr 21, 2005

Burman succeeds in involving us with the kind of characters who don't normally find their way to the big screen.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 15, 2005

A beautifully crafted film. Full of intriguing tracking shots, broken into vignettes introduced with lyrical titles, it has a willfully patient pace.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2005

An interminable slog through congested headspace.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 12, 2005

Some movies you like. Some you don't. Others just make you shrug your shoulders.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2005

The wit with which Burman casts an almost Shakespearean longing for purpose and direction against the tiny confines of a seedy mall is adroit and inspired.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2005