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100
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like.
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90
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The New York Times Dave Kehr
One of the most pleasant foreign films of the year, a funny, graceful and immensely good-natured work.
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90
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Aside from superb ensemble work from an 18-member cast, "Together's sense of human potential is its greatest pleasure.
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90
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
This hilarious and humane film nails its subject -- not just the unshaved armpits and the lack of underwear -- and marks Moodysson as a talent to watch.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Terrifically funny and remarkably wise, a comedy that speaks volumes, without a polemical word, about the tension between rigid politics of any stripe and the imperatives of life and love.
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88
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
A mordantly funny, clear-eyed view of an extended family's mounting dysfunction in a changing society.
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80
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Moodysson's cornball sentimentality about the many shapes of the human family is tempered by his honesty about personal frailty and the silliness of utopian living experiments.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It may be that Together only wants to remember a time. That it does with gentle, observant humor. If it has a message, it is that ideas imposed on human nature may be able to shape lives for a while, but in the long run, we drift back toward more conventional choices.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
A gentle, sprightly satire that pokes fun at these trendy communards but emphasizes their humanity and fallibility.
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75
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
The best thing about Together, apart from the way some of its characters grow on you even as others put you off, is the way it snatches idealism back from the brink of life-smothering orthodoxy.
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