Turturro's attempt to mix working-class magical realism and MGM romanticism is wildly uneven.

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

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Romance & Cigarettes wears thin, like a moral for the titular addiction: Sure, there's the sweet dream of that first drag, but a whole pack'll do a body bad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2008

When it succeeds, it soars with great abandon, and when it fails, it fails so grandly that we still want to applaud it. This is a madhouse of a movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2008

It shouldn't work, but there's something beautiful in Turturro's non-judgmental, almost affectionate, exposure of human love as the courting dance of clueless primates

| Original Score: A- | Jan 29, 2008

No musical in the past 10 years (with the exception of Chicago) has had the courage of its convictions, and that's the whole problem.

| Jan 18, 2008

In a season seasoned with off-beat originality in the movies, from Lars and the Real Girl to I'm Not There, you still have not seen anything quite like John Turturro's extraordinary Romance and Cigarettes.

| Jan 3, 2008

The film has an overall tonal inconsistency and suffers from the occasional bout of tin-ear-itis, which ultimately derails this sometimes interesting attempt at reinvigorating the genre.

| Original Score: 58/100 | Dec 31, 2007

...you have not lived till you've seen Walken belt out a Tom Jones tune.

| Dec 21, 2007

It takes us on a unique, passionately committed journey.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007

How weird is John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes? Almost indescribably weird, though also strangely involving.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2007

John Turturro has crafted a truly unique American musical worthy of the Coen brothers' executive producer credits.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 20, 2007

Romance and Cigarettes is a dark-red valentine to the way that pop music gets under our skin.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2007

One of the most inventive, surprising and challenging American films of 2005. Pity that it's 2007.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 13, 2007

A step away from Springtime for Hitler -- a classic awful.

| Original Score: D | Dec 13, 2007

I found myself smiling with bafflement for most of the film, mostly enjoying the unorthodoxy of the whole thing.

| Original Score: B | Dec 12, 2007

An ambitious experiment, it's not entirely successful, but it's easy to admire.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

Romance and Cigarettes is a clever idea, poorly executed.

| Dec 7, 2007

A cheerfully bizarre delight for anyone open to its decidedly off-beat charms.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2007