Based on a charming French film of the same name, it's safe, laid-back Sunday night viewing involving rural Canadians attempting to play a ridiculous game called cricket.

| Oct 18, 2021

A comedy with a poignant edge.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The Grand Seduction is not really a romcom. It's sweet farce in the Waking Ned Devine genre, the tale of a village making an idiot out of a city slicker-a narrative heist, so to speak.

| Aug 7, 2019

The Grand Seduction is stunningly physically beautiful. Tickle Head Harbor looks like a place most people would actually like to visit, perhaps when something more exciting is happening there.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 12, 2019

Breezy, mildly confusing and charmingly off-kilter The Grand Seduction is an English-language Canadian film that tickles the funnybone in its cheeky conviction detailing the desperate economic times of a financially-strapped Newfoundland fishing village

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 14, 2018

Rent the original, La Grande Séduction, instead.

| Aug 15, 2017

The Grand Seduction is good-looking, well-cast and funny like an old CBC comedy. Totally fine.

| Mar 10, 2017

An old-fashioned ode to small-town working class values that moonlights as a screwball comedy.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 6, 2016

If McKellar could have just injected some of the eccentricity of his brilliant debut, Last Night, into proceedings we might have had an Ealing-esque social farce. Instead we're left with a comedy that's wry but prosaic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2015

The remake never manages to drum up much excitement for its sleepy hamlet rousing or for its characters, finally filled with purpose.

| Dec 23, 2014

At best, this aspires to the whimsical charm of Local Hero; at worst, it simply steals from it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2014

This is all about duels between rugged veterans. Cheery Gleeson and craggy Gordon Pinset steal the show.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Though ultimately a somewhat forgettable feature film, The Grand Seduction does have a lot of heart and a certain charm to it which makes for an easy, gratifying experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2014

The filmmakers hope for a fable-like charm rather than gritty credibility, but the whole thing feels as cynical as the villagers' convoluted mission.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2014

A comedy drama that offers a portrait of the Emerald Isle that is contrived in its quaintness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Brendan Gleeson brings bags of charm and feeling to his role as the local-schemer-in-chief and there's some poignancy in the community's desperation to find employment.

| Aug 28, 2014

It's a bit of a soppy, sappy film that wastes Gleeson's talent and incidentally appears to imply that bribing oil-company executives is a victimless crime.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2014

Brendan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch doggy-paddle awkwardly through this lacklustre fishing village comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2014

Despite some occasional wobbles, this is a charming small-town comedy in the Ealing tradition, while Douglas Koch's attractive cinematography is almost enough to make you consider relocating to Newfoundland. Almost.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2014

Gleeson is a strong anchor and brings some complexity to his part; it's just that he isn't served well by a script that too often mistakes bluntness for irony.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2014