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Kolya (1996)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:20

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: When a financially strapped former symphony cellist, now making a meager living by playing at funerals, gets pressured into a paper marriage with a friend's single-mother niece, his roving-eye... [More]

Starring: Zdenek Sverak, Andrej Chalimon, Libuse Safrankova, Ondrez Vetchy

Director: Jan Sverak

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Jul 2, 2002

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Tomatometer	Critic	Review	Category
N/R	David Rooney	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Mar., 26 2009 03:17 AM	Variety
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Feb., 09 2006 03:17 AM	Time Out
4/5	Emanuel Levy	No review available. Comment \| Jun., 14 2005 10:37 AM	EmanuelLevy.Com
8/10	Dragan Antulov	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Mar., 15 2004 04:17 PM	rec.arts.movies.reviews
C+	Dennis Schwartz	Disappoints as a lumbering mainstream pic that is all too familiar to Americans. Full Review \| Comment \| Feb., 09 2004 10:42 PM	Ozus' World Movie Reviews
5/5	Carol Cling	No review available. Comment \| Nov., 14 2003 11:15 AM	Las Vegas Review-Journal
4/5		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jul., 30 2003 05:14 PM	TV Guide's Movie Guide
3.5/4	Susan Tavernetti	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| May., 20 2003 05:18 PM	Palo Alto Weekly
3/5	Jeffrey Westhoff	No review available. Comment \| Mar., 27 2003 12:56 PM	Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
N/R	Margaret A. McGurk	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Oct., 15 2002 08:28 AM	Cincinnati Enquirer
B	Philip Martin	...one of those beautiful, sweet, buttery-lit movies that will leave all but the bitterest cynics smiling. Full Review \| Comment \| Aug., 28 2002 12:57 PM	Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
	Betty Jo Tucker	With his big sad eyes, Andrej Chalimon pulls us lovingly and completely into Kolya's life. He's simply perfect as a little Russian refugee in this poignant movie treasure. Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 24 2002 06:56 AM	ReelTalk Movie Reviews
3/4	Edward Guthmann	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 18 2002 08:22 AM	San Francisco Chronicle
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 05 2002 08:21 AM	Boxoffice Magazine
3/5		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| May., 06 2002 08:19 AM	BBC
N/R	Leslie Rigoulot	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 17 2002 08:19 AM	Film Scouts
4/4		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 12 2002 08:19 AM	Globe and Mail
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Mar., 24 2002 08:18 AM	Boston Phoenix
	Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat	Let Kolya work its magic upon your heart. Full Review \| Comment \| Feb., 26 2002 05:48 AM	Spirituality and Practice
N/R	Desson Thomson	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jan., 22 2002 08:17 AM	Washington Post

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