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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerThis movie is a one-of-a-kind experience – blarney carried to rhapsodic heights.
- 90MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekOndine suggests that coincidence and magic are often the same thing.
- 80NPRElla TaylorNPRElla TaylorOndine plumbs the country's most resonant fairy tale and plays impishly along the borders of postcard fantasies of Ireland.
- 75Miami HeraldConnie OgleMiami HeraldConnie OgleMostly, though, Ondine deftly demonstrates just how far we'll reach for any promise of relief from life's hardships, in whatever form -- magic or plain dumb luck -- it arrives.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaPretty magical.
- 70Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyThe road is rocky when the story speeds up to take care of business, with the end a mad dash to tie up loose ends. Still, there is enough saving grace on these craggy shores to let the mists and the legends roll in and envelop you for a while.
- 60EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesFunny, whimsical and as warming as a big bowl of Irish stew.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoNeil Jordan's Ondine has a split personality. It starts promisingly as a fantasy but ends disappointingly as a thriller.
- 40New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsJordan's screenplay aims for a romanticism that the beautiful but stiff Bachleda is unable to fulfill. And the ending, which injects the film's dreamy sensibility with an ugly note of realism, crashes over everything like a frigid wave.