Take This Waltz Reviews
Daily Express
Beautifully photographed, maudlin and moving, bruising and bittersweet, Take This Waltz is a heartrending emotional roller coaster.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Committed and resonant, Take This Waltz gets under your skin - and feels a lot like the work of an auteur in the making.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
Basically pretty humourless, considering that sharp comics Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman are in the cast, clearly doing their level best as actors. But there's no air for them to breathe.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Financial Times
Polley delivers a rich evocation of the central marriage, with its mixture of by-rote ritual and easy comfort, and makes the wise and unusual decision to portray the cuckold-to-be (Seth Rogen) as decent and good-natured, rather than stiff or cruel.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Telegraph
Flush with beauty and truth, and is unerringly, unnervingly accurate on love, desire and friendship.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Polley expertly navigates the emotional states of her characters, constantly surprising and challenging our expectations about who will say what and what will happen next.
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| Original Score: A-
ViewLondon
An enjoyable, thought-provoking relationship drama with a terrific central performance from Michelle Williams, a superb support cast and an emotionally engaging script.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Ooh Tray
Sarah Polley's romance, gilded with comic touches, has both an ear and eye for life's ambiguities.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Frank but contrived romance story.
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| Original Score: B-
Empire Magazine
A masterfully painted portrait of an ordinary marriage under threat, dominated by a central performance of exquisite subtlety and observation.
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| Original Score: 4/5
KC Active
Haiku Take This Waltz Sarah Polley can make stupid decisions seem well worth repeating
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flicks.co.nz
This isn't your average romantic film where the audience sits like God, waiting for the lovestruck couple to overcome obstacles and embrace.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The List
Polley proves to be a perceptive observer of the body language between couples, particularly the passive-aggressive dynamic between Margot and Lou.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
Some strained metaphors and character tics aside, this proves both Polley's perceptive eye and Williams' ability to explore life-scuffed emotions. Wry, risqué and real.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Michelle Williams is excellent as a married woman struggling with her passions.
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| Original Score: B
Examiner.com
"Take This Waltz" tries to take advantage of this preconceived notion that you already love this movie even though you haven't seen it yet. It tries so hard to be cute and cuddly and emotional and it winds up being massively annoying in the process.
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| Original Score: 3/10
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Take This Waltz" is overwrought, overwritten and a little unfair to all the characters portrayed.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Times-Picayune
The quality of some of the performances are expected (Michelle Williams), some are a surprise (Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman), but all contribute greatly to a lovely & meaningful film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Take This Waltz is an achingly beautiful film in the longing its characters express and the sun-dappled Toronto cinematographer Luc Montpellier captures.
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| Original Score: B
