Don't be put off by the ambiguous-sounding title and the lack of star names. Mystic Pizza is a marvelously warm and funny comedy-drama that is frankly sentimental but never cloying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 23, 2019

Genuine and moving.

| Mar 26, 2009

Thanks to sensitive direction by Petrie, the result is a thoroughly involving movie that doesn't resort to violence, sex or schmaltz to pack an emotional punch.

| Feb 9, 2006

Though in essence this is little more than a girls' romance novel brought to life, it has been filled with heart and humor.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

You get the general sense that the actors -- particularly Annabeth Gish and, though he is hardly featured, D'Onofrio (who was last seen as the troubled recruit in "Full Metal Jacket") -- are better than their material, but this is scant compensation.

| Jan 1, 2000

"Mystic Pizza" does create the feeling of a small resort town and the people who live there and, amazingly, given the familiar nature of a lot of the material, it nearly always keeps us interested.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000