Critics Scoreboard
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Average Critic Score:
82
(31 sources)
82
(31 sources)
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100
Christian Science Monitor
Superbly acted, movingly written, and directed with a tough-minded lyricism rarely found in today's films. A summer movie to love. Read Full Review » -
100
Entertainment Weekly
Pawlikowski has made a romance that becomes a horror movie in which love, more than anything around it, is a delusionary fever to fear. Read Full Review » -
100
Premiere
This is as wonderfully realized an observation of female affinity as 1999's great "The Dreamlife of Angels." Read Full Review » -
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91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Pawlikowski has made a gorgeously ambiguous film -- based upon a novel by Helen Cross -- that is blessedly hard to tag; in fact, it's a compilation of genres and moods -- comedy, romance and diabolical thriller -- and that is its core strength and freshness. Read Full Review » -
90
Chicago Reader
So fraught with unresolved issues of class, sexuality, and spiritual need, and so carefully observed by Pawlikowski, that it opens out like the movie's West Yorkshire countryside. Read Full Review » -
90
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90
Los Angeles Times
Two teen girls forge an explosive connection in a compelling Pawel Pawlikowski film. Read Full Review » -
90
Newsweek
Press and Blunt are major discoveries: in this sly and wonderfully atmospheric gem, they conjure up the role-playing raptures of youth with perfect poetic pitch. Read Full Review » -
90
Salon.com
Its stars, Emily Blunt and Natalie Press, are film newcomers who give startling performances. The photography is often breathtakingly original. Read Full Review » -
90
Variety
Direction, performances and lensing blend into an immensely satisfying, if almost uncategorizable, whole in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love. Read Full Review » -
90
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90
Dallas Observer
The result is a mood movie that sweeps you into its infatuation and holds you there. Read Full Review » -
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
An exquisite exploration into the realms of seduction, obsession, deception and disillusionment. Read Full Review » -
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
My Summer of Love may sound like the title of a hot teen flick, but it is a truly refreshing grown-up big-screen film, a rare gem in this summer of duds. Read Full Review » -
83
Portland Oregonian
My Summer of Love, with its lush, sunlit landscapes, may occupy the opposite end of the visual spectrum, but it reinforces the sense that this director knows his way around the range of human emotion as well. Read Full Review » -
80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Pawlikowski's off-balance compositions and affection for odd close-ups suggest the influence of Wong Kar-Wai, but the film's low-key observational spirit owes as much to Mike Leigh. Read Full Review » -
80
Washington Post
Remains highly watchable throughout, for its atmosphere and the actors. Read Full Review » -
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Some of the metaphors are a bit too literal but the director largely succeeds with his story and the surprises are convincing. Best of all the film has a terrific sense of humor and the young actresses exploit it delightfully. Read Full Review » -
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New York Daily News
Travels so deeply into the confusions of female adolescence that you'd never know this deceptively languid British film was directed by a Polish-born man. Read Full Review » -
75
Chicago Sun-Times
This isn't a coming-of-age movie so much as a movie about being of an age. Read Full Review » -
75
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75
Miami Herald
The movie is enchanting yet strangely menacing, and it becomes clear that Pawlikowski is no mere love fool. Read Full Review » -
70
The New Republic
The film is emotionally and visually sustained, so it is pleasant. Read Full Review » -
70
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70
TV Guide
A bittersweet rite-of-passage story driven by the subtle performances of newcomers Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt. Read Full Review » -
67
Austin Chronicle
When compared with most of what passes for honest teen drama these days, My Summer of Love is a real reprieve. Read Full Review » -
63
Baltimore Sun
Pawlikowski's heart may be with Mona, but his art is closer to Tamsin. He luxuriates in his sensibility without delivering a movie that pays off in originality or insight. Read Full Review » -
63
Boston Globe
At its most interesting, the movie offers us the sight of people desperately embracing faith in the hopes it will pull them through. Read Full Review » -
63
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