Feels like little more than an entertaining confection that does not reveal any greater truths about human nature.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2019

Positively crackles with lively French wit and captivating romance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2019

It is, hands down, the best date movie in town.

| Feb 5, 2018

No need to resist this enchanting, airy trifle with a surprisingly sober twist.

| Dec 14, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Charming, but too contrived for a great turn on

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2009

The quiet joys of Shall We Kiss? are to be found not only in the observational writing and the pitch-perfect performances but in the way the mood shifts from tantalising foreplay to more serious matters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2009

The influence of Woody Allen is obvious, but Mouret -- though he overdoes the tics and hesitancies of his nervous lover -- manages to make this combination of humour, sex and pain all his own.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2009

It's the kind of total submission to a filmmaker that's usually reserved for edge-of-your-seat thrillers and, in a way, that's what Mouret has made: an expertly suspenseful romance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 18, 2009

Mouret is the cinematic offspring of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer. From the former he takes the actor-director presenting himself as neurotic but satisfying lover; from the latter he absorbs the pleasure of extended talk. Mouret's talk is enjoyable, but i

| Jun 13, 2009

The film goes badly awry, I think. There is something coy and miscalculated about it all. Mouret is quite talented as an actor, but maybe it's time he found another writer.

| Jun 12, 2009

This is not your average romantic comedy. Shall We Kiss? simply delights.

| Jun 12, 2009

It's a breezy, entertaining little film that ends up being more sophisticated and thoughtful about love than it first appears. Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss, and sometimes it's a lot more.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2009

[The] polite inquiry [of the title] pretty well sums up the tone of this featherweight ensemble comedy about French people falling in and out of love.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 12, 2009

This is a delicate and naïve piece of French fluff, part love story, part morality tale, part bedroom farce, and all very much in the style of writer-director-actor Emmanuel Mouret, a kind of comatose Woody Allen character.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 11, 2009

The addiction of French cinema to stories of love, lust, betrayal and romance continues unabated in the hands of Emmanuel Mouret, playing unassuming characters on screen in his own films, like this one

| Jun 5, 2009

A kiss, like this deceptively simple love story, is none A kiss, like this deceptively simple love story, is none too simple at all.

| Jun 5, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2009

You cannot talk yourself into passion, nor can you talk yourself out of it. The naive characters in Emmanuel Mouret's chatty romance try anyway.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2009