The quirky characters and creative presentation balance out a wandering plot.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2020

Funny, charming, awkward, and totally believable ...

| Mar 12, 2019

But though some of the emotions portrayed are fake, Paper Heart ultimately is a heartfelt film that wears its sincerity on its sleeve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2018

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Twee mockumentary bestills love-seeking hipster hearts.

| Aug 15, 2011

Paper Heart doesn't unearth the meaning of 'love' (spoiler alert?) but it at least shows us how real human beings deal with all those confusing emotions that might equal something close to it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2010

Ultimately, one doubts that even the parts that seemed real are real, and the entire house-of-cards comes tumbling down.

| Aug 9, 2010

Determining the exact level of artifice never stops being distracting, and the emotional climax is far from earned.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2010

There are so many things about the film that could have been annoying (...) but the story is so refreshing and honest that it would be almost impossible to find anything annoying here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2010

Yi's worldview is best represented by a song she writes for Cera, a Weezer-esque bit of nerd rock called You Smell Like Christmas. At first the song is irritating, but it sticks in your head and just like Paper Heart, the song is annoyingly hummable.

| Dec 25, 2009

It's not the worst cutesy, lo-fi love story you'll ever see, but it's shown up by all those genuine true-life tales. Alongside them, its falseness is too glaring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2009

An extremely irritating, narcissistic picture.

| Nov 13, 2009

The segments featuring real people are genuinely affecting, but the realisation that everything else is probably being acted - that truth may be polluted by hoax - gives this otherwise lightweight film a sly, subversive edge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Whimsical, solipsistic and self-indulgent, Paper Heart represents everything that is wrong with American independent cinema.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2009

A world-beatingly annoying and pointless "docu-romcom".

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 6, 2009

The movie's winsome artificiality may drive you bananas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Like Yi herself, the film may seem at times rather naïve in its outlook, but it's also honest and entertaining.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2009

Where Paper Heart does shine, however, is in the reflections of the general public and few will fail to be moved by their truly inspiring and heartwarming stories of true love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Yi is a unique tour guide, her deadpan demeanour, embarrassed giggle and horn-rimmed specs generating non-starry appeal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2009