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

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

[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

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

Full Review | Jun 2, 2006

It's well worth a look in this very lean season for grown-up entertainment.

Full Review | May 31, 2006

The early 30s crisis certainly looks more tenable if it's unfolding among several European capitals, but the movie lacks the specificity and focus of the first.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2006

As energetic as the original and light as a feather.

| May 19, 2006

Precisely observed, charming and -- for better and worse -- light as air.

Full Review | May 18, 2006

Reilly, who was born in Surrey in 1977, and has been active on the London stage as well as in movies, engages each man she meets onscreen with her face, her body, her breathing.

Full Review | May 16, 2006

Meandering, overlong digital soap opera.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2006

Intentional or not, many of Klapisch's tricks frustrate our connection to the characters, especially Xavier.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2006

In small, insightful, and charmingly illustrated moments, Klapisch shows he has something real to say about what makes a life successful.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 12, 2006

As the overlong pic wears on, it's hard to care whether the puzzle pieces of the protags' lives fall into place or not.

Full Review | May 11, 2006

Cédric Klapisch's Russian Dolls has not much on its mind beyond updating the lives of the characters in his 2002 comedy L'Auberge Espagnole.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 11, 2006

Less, however, would have been considerably more.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 10, 2006

Klapisch is daring you to call him sentimental. He is. But, as he proves in a sublime ending, he's magical too.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 10, 2006

Those who loved the original Auberge will likely be eager to book rooms once again.

Full Review | May 9, 2006