The film doesn't take sides, but instead looks at each character in the story and playfully reveals their strengths and weaknesses.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 9, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2009

More than just a spotlight on wacky family members and screwball situations ... a simple statement about some absurd perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 2007

A rare, optimistic ray of hope about the prospects of Jewish-Muslim relations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2007

Writer-directors Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri have penned an amusing script and, as directors, inject a delicate human texture into the story's intermixing of capricious zaniness, frank sensuality and Mideast politics.

| Feb 15, 2007

The laughs more than make up for the familiarity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2006

... well-intentioned and charming, a deliberately downsized film that despite its high concept finds humor in the domestic more often than the political.

Full Review | Original Score: 83/100 | Oct 6, 2006

A fresh and funny Spanish take on the classic family screwball comedy.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 8, 2006

Only Human (Seres Queridos), generally speaking, doesn't work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2006

While the comedy is at times sharp but mainly chaotic in that frenzied European style, it seems the filmmakers actually intended to make a statement about Jews, Arabs, and the possibility that love can out maneuver politics and overcome unimaginable histo

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2006

The only lesson it has to impart is that a gifted, charismatic cast can elevate the most tired material into something closer to mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 11, 2006

The secret to Only Human's appeal is that the silliness is performed matter of factly, so it becomes a new, cracked definition of normal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2006

The irreverent comedy of family feuds, impulsive leaps of (il)logic, and temporary amnesia is more screwball eccentricity than social satire.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 5, 2006

There's a political and social clash at its core, but the laughter comes from a deeper, human place (see title).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2006

A familiar situation of a beloved daughter bringing her intended home to meet the folks is pushed to sublimely silly extremes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Offers passing amusements, for sure, but the gap between its brilliant potential and its final execution is frustrating.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 28, 2006

A Spanish comedy that isn't quite as frenzied or farcical as its husband-and-wife writer-director team clearly intended it to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2006

Amiable, and occasionally even insightful, but also sometimes just silly and at others a trifle tasteless...a mixed bag that, unhappily, doesn't deliver quite enough.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 11, 2006

It lets frantic get so far ahead of funny, the latter gets lost in the dust.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 7, 2006