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Empire - Angie Errigo | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'Adorable. Ad-or-able. It will melt even the coldest heart.'
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Total Film - Kevin Harley | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Not all of the subtexts hold weight (especially the one involving media intrusion), while hard-nosed viewers might find the Yi-designed puppet-show interludes too cute by half. But even they will probably warm to the true-love confessionals from bikers, Elvis lookalikes, gay couples and long-term spouses.' |
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Little White Lies - Nikki Baughan | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Like Yi herself, the film may seem at times rather naïve in its outlook, but it's also honest and entertaining.' |
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The Financial Times - Nigel Andrews | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The film becomes more bewitching the more it loses direction. Yi stops questioning strangers and starts questioning herself. She also interrogates the ability, or inability, of cinema to follow love into its deepest mazes. ' |
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Evening Standard - Derek Malcolm | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The bikers, gays, judges and proprietors of Las Vegas marriage venues are more entertaining than either Yi or Cera, and so are the interludes of make-do-and-mend animation that accompany the ephemeral proceedings.' |
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The Sunday Times - Edward Porter | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Then Yi meets the gawky actor Michael Cera and falls for him, and we soon realise we're now watching a scripted mock-documentary. It's not the worst cutesy, lo-fi love story you'll ever see, but it's shown up by all those genuine true-life tales. Alongside them, its falseness is too glaring.' |
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The Daily Telegraph - Tim Robey | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'the movie's winsome artificiality may drive you bananas' |
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The Independent - Anthony Quinn | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'This indie squib wobbles briefly on a tightrope between sincerity and cuteness before plunging headlong to a death-by-whimsy.' |
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The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'This self-regarding vanity project would not have got off the ground without Cera in the picture, and it looks uncomfortably as if he has done his ex-girlfriend a really, really big favour by getting involved. He is only doing Yi the favour, though. Not us.' |
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The Observer - Philip French | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'an extremely irritating, narcissistic picture' |
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