A perfect capsule of lesbian desire and first love, Show Me Love is a gem of a movie; one that would make you think Close was a tad overrated.

| Original Score: 82/100 | Nov 24, 2023

This bittersweet tale will leave you sentimentally reminiscing about past loves and the passion of that first awkward kiss.

| May 27, 2022

Even the graininess of the film itself captures a kind of pre-millennium feeling. All to be savored!

| Feb 1, 2022

The tentative nature of these couplings and the social environments that could threaten to undermine them suggest that these stories are only beginning. But I'm rooting for both couples anyway. Call me a romantic.

| Jan 11, 2021

With honesty, charm and an uncanny sympathy for all its characters, it takes us deep inside the awkward and exhilarating experience of first love.

| Mar 6, 2018

A charming teen comedy from Sweden.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 2, 2012

Lukas Moodyson's debut feature has a grainy, immediate feel that nicely enhances the story's emotional honesty -- a quality that our own popular teen movies have only just begun to embrace.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2007

This powerful, funny romantic drama neatly integrates the dilemmas of a girl in love, the girl she loves, a boy who also loves that girl, and that girl's sister.

| Jul 18, 2007

A simple, charming, and slightly edgy romance between two teenage girls.

| May 26, 2006

While the storyline has few surprises, the central performances create a touching relationship, despite the suspicion that the male writer/director's interest in the subject is slightly dubious, or at least tokenistic.

| Feb 9, 2006

Nobody can deny the honesty or the outright sincerity this film has.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2005

Dahlstrm and especially Liljeberg are first-rate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2005

Unfortunately, as the plot develops, it shies away from exploring that discontent, in favor of demonstrating precisely the kind of naivet and sweetness that one would expect to find in any teen romance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2003

Moodysson's story may be an old one -- the taboo romance between lovers from different ends of the school spectrum -- but his sharp script refreshes old themes.

| Dec 2, 2002

I must have missed what the Swedes see in this film. I found it mildly interesting at best.

| Oct 21, 2002

It's an awkward, unapologetic, unconventional -- and ultimately winning -- look at first love, one that unabashedly portrays the complications and confusion that result from those first crushes and rushes of attraction and passion.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 3, 2002

High school, small town, teenagers in hormone hell -- or is that heaven?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002