[Its] cheery characters are ultimately stuck wending their way through wackily contrived scenarios fit for a sitcom.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 24, 2006

Yet another example of writer/director Klapisch's way of finding fresh new insights within the most mundane of circumstances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2003

A film whose limitations are the same as its appeal: It's a bauble.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2003

It features four of the most erotically and emotionally delectable female performances I have seen in one film this year.

| Jun 26, 2003

Much of the charm of this film is in its understanding of the great fluidity of romantic relationships -- especially before people decide to settle down.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2003

It's hard to complain about a film that combines Paris and the city in the world that is most like it.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2003

Whether you're a frat guy from the '50s or live in a 21st-century coed dorm, L'Auberge Espagnole's celebration of a certain time, a certain place, a certain community is engagingly recognizable.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 6, 2003

Despite the movie's lack of narrative discipline, it grows on you, in part because it's so easy to identify with these characters.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 5, 2003

Warm without sentimentality, funny without jokes, rich in character without caricature, it hits that rare spot where we receive intense pleasure at the recognition of truth.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2003

It's a movie that feels rich in possibility, like the time of life it depicts, and creates a sunniness that lingers long after the credits roll.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2003

A love song to the new Europe ... and a snapshot of a polyglot gang on the cusp of kind-of- reckless youth and responsibility- burdened adulthood.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 29, 2003

Funny, smart and sexy, not to mention the best advertisement for the euro I've ever seen.

| May 23, 2003

It's an exhilarating, funny, very sweet movie.

| May 23, 2003

Now and again, L'Auberge makes a leap. The light catches it just right, and up flashes a pleasing insight about the state of the European union.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 23, 2003

Imagine the American students in The Real Cancun as if they were literate, cosmopolitan and not substance abusers, and you've got it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2003

There's a reason this warm, stylish human comedy was a big hit all across the Continent: It conveys a new generation's conviction that borders no longer matter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2003

Could be to today's adventurous young what the films of Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer were to the children of the '60s: hip, entertaining and so relevant they made American movies seem trifling and phony by comparison.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2003

[Klapisch] forces us to notice the ordinary details we ordinarily sleepwalk through.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2003

With such a large cast there's not a whole heck of a lot for everybody to do, but the characters are fleshed out well enough by the writing and the talented ensemble cast.

| Original Score: B | May 22, 2003