| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

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

One of the best compliments to be paid a movie based on fiction is that it compels you to read other things by the author. Love Comes Lately is likely to elicit such a response.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2008

A film that might be called stubbornly magical.

| Jul 31, 2008

Fear of intimacy trumps fear of death in Love Comes Lately, filmmaker Jan Schtte's plaintively effective merging of three Isaac Bashevis Singer short stories.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2008

The idea's not terrible, and no filmmaker has bothered with Singer for years, but this movie chooses to reduce the author's soulfulness to mirrored tales of lonely, randy seniors, all of whom Tausig plays. In one sense, it's a disservice.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2008

The plight of the aged is worthy of consideration, but a series of AARP fantasies do not a story make.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 13, 2008

As fast-paced as a canasta game in Boca Raton, Love Comes Lately drags on through a plot so contrived it could be a parody of one of Woody Allen's middle-era comedies.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 13, 2008

Max Kohn (Otto Tausig), the aging Lothario of Love Comes Lately, is very much like the movie itself: doddering and milquetoasty, but ultimately disarming.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2008

Schtte deftly juggles antic comedy, pathos, and melancholy.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2008

There have been several other films over the years based on Singer's works, but none with such relevance as Love Comes Lately...

Full Review | Jun 11, 2008

Swinging from solemn drama to farcical humor at a moment's notice, the proceedings rarely feel surefooted.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2008

Three stories involving essentially the same elderly man are slight, slight and slighter.

Full Review | Jan 28, 2008

Script's strong point is smooth way fictional stories flow in and out of the cover yarn.

| Oct 3, 2007