| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Anyone who loved L'Auberge Espagnole should at least like its sequel as something of a guilty fling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2007

His directorial hand is so handsomely assured and his cast so charming that it's easy to succumb to his let-me-entertain-you blandishments

| Mar 1, 2007

Essentially this is Espagnole on repeat, as if the lessons from the former film had been fully expunged after five years on ice.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 16, 2006

The cast of renegades is as appealing as ever.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

It's hard to decide what's prettier in Russian Dolls: the people or the places. Either way, we win.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2006

If you saw and enjoyed the previous film, you'll know what to expect, and you'll enjoy it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 18, 2006

With its crackling dialogue and attractive, fully rounded characters, Russian Dolls puts American movies on similar subjects to shame.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2006

For those who saw and loved L'Auberge Espagnole, Russian Dolls automatically becomes of interest, but writer-director Cedric Klapisch can't quite make the case for it as a stand-alone experience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2006

Klapisch has made something deliciously close to a nature documentary about the young, the foolish, and the alive.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2006

Klapisch has a light, springy touch and a real adoration for his characters and their Paris/London locations, and even at a lengthy 126 minutes, the film never drags.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2006

It's an effortlessly charming ensemble, and Klapisch's characters (most of them anyway) reveal depths of feeling that compensate for the film's lightweight tone and too-long running time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2006

(T)he film is all sex and style, with a photogenic cast leaping across Europe while the director plays narrative games.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 6, 2006

A sort of wandering rom-com epic -- kicking romantic fallacies in the ribs while capturing something essential about the solipsism and dreams of young urbanites.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 30, 2006

If you can't afford to make that big European vacation this summer, "Russian Dolls" provides both the locations and some amusing company for the journey.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2006

[Xavier] turns this film into more of a self-fixated memoir, less of a blithe ensemble piece.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 29, 2006

Fluffily enjoyable.

| Jun 15, 2006

Klapisch, who digitally divides frames into collages of memory, is perfectly in tune with our era's cynical freedoms.

| Original Score: A | Jun 7, 2006

Featuring an appealing cast led by Romain Duris, the film has a frothy charm that's hard to resist.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2006

Great fun, thanks to the sparkling dialogue, entertaining performances, and the gorgeous scenery of Paris, London and St. Petersburg.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2006