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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (2)
The film's examination of the first-generation American experience feels fresh. The delivery, however, is hardly original. Sep 29, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The film's examination of the first-generation American experience feels fresh. The delivery, however, is hardly original.
Stephanie Merry
It's a root-worthy picture with its share of warm, amusing moments, an attractive pair of leads and a vivid use of Big Apple locales. Aug 11, 2016 | Full Review…
It's a root-worthy picture with its share of warm, amusing moments, an attractive pair of leads and a vivid use of Big Apple locales.
Gary Goldstein
If there isn't much subtlety or surprise in Yeung's screenplay, his direction is graceful enough to make this a pleasant if unmemorable bittersweet love story. Aug 5, 2016 | Full Review…
If there isn't much subtlety or surprise in Yeung's screenplay, his direction is graceful enough to make this a pleasant if unmemorable bittersweet love story.
Dennis Harvey
Whatever nuance can be found in Front Cover, the story of an openly gay fashion stylist and a seemingly homophobic Chinese movie star, belongs chiefly to the performances of Jake Choi and James Chen. Aug 5, 2016 | Full Review…
Whatever nuance can be found in Front Cover, the story of an openly gay fashion stylist and a seemingly homophobic Chinese movie star, belongs chiefly to the performances of Jake Choi and James Chen.
Sheri Linden
[A] sexy, ambitious comic drama. Aug 5, 2016 | Full Review…
[A] sexy, ambitious comic drama.
Robyn Bahr
While the film adheres to the conventions of romantic melodramas, its fascinations from a cultural perspective remain strong throughout. Aug 5, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
While the film adheres to the conventions of romantic melodramas, its fascinations from a cultural perspective remain strong throughout.
Godfrey Cheshire
These good intentions never translate into a good movie. Jan 2, 2017 | Full Review…
These good intentions never translate into a good movie.
Tricia Olszewski
For all its awkwardness in bridging the personal and the cultural, Front Cover does deliver as a nice little romantic comedy with a pair of endearing leads. Oct 25, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
For all its awkwardness in bridging the personal and the cultural, Front Cover does deliver as a nice little romantic comedy with a pair of endearing leads.
Edmund Lee
[A] predictable but occasionally endearing romantic comedy. Aug 4, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
[A] predictable but occasionally endearing romantic comedy.
Chris Evangelista
The very few instances where stereotypes are challenged are forced and didactically delivered. Aug 1, 2016 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…
The very few instances where stereotypes are challenged are forced and didactically delivered.
Diego Semerene
Though too slight to be memorable, the gay romance "Front Cover" takes a gentle, thoughtful look at the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality. Aug 4, 2016 | Full Review…
Though too slight to be memorable, the gay romance "Front Cover" takes a gentle, thoughtful look at the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality.
Jeannette Catsoulis
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