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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesWriter-director Pupi Avati has a such a fine sense of narrative proportion that this Italian feature unspools like silk.
- 75New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsNeri Marcore gives a beautifully understated performance.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA poignant love story, laced with tenderness and gentle humor and told with the warmth of Italian movies in their seductively good-natured mode.
- 60Village VoiceLeslie CamhiVillage VoiceLeslie CamhiIf you can suspend your disbelief regarding Nello's naïveté, this film offers some quiet pleasures.
- The film serves up all the splendor of Bologna, and then an ending that is baloney.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoPleasant but lifeless love story.
- The main problem is Marcore, who is almost too gawky to be believed.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisOne wishes Incantato was made of something other than musty air. Avati provides no real emotional counterweight for all the whimsy and nonsense, and the movie carries neither the force of morality nor the titillation of trashiness.
- 40Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonIt's a warm bath experience, soap-sudsed with sentimentality, improbability and other storytelling misdemeanors.
- 30L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThere may, somewhere in the premise of Incantato, lie the inspiration for a fine farce, but under Avati's shaky stewardship, the picture is leaden and charmless.