Patrik 1,5, (Patrik Age 1.5) Reviews
August 20, 2010
This homey construct is warm, exactingly crafted and painted with pop-country tones.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
August 20, 2010
A film that always chooses optimism and wishful thinking over realism.
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| Original Score: 2/4
August 19, 2010
In its murky light, the film is filled with details that seem utterly true...
Original Score: 3/4
August 19, 2010
The Kids Are All Right cuts the same corners as this movie, it just uses a better knife.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
August 13, 2010
It's predictable.
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| Original Score: 2/4
August 12, 2010
Pretty funny and the humor ran alongside many pleasant and fulfilling arcs.
Original Score: 3/5
August 6, 2010
Deftly combining low-key romance and gentle humor, the director, Ella Lemhagen (working from Michael Druker's 2008 play), stares down prejudice with a nudge and a wink rather than a soapbox.
Original Score: 3.5/5
August 4, 2010
The stuff of time-tested trite melodrama...
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 2, 2010
The anticlimactic child in Patrik, Age 1.5 isn't as nightmarish as Rosemary's Baby or the man-eating wooden branch-sucking-on-a-pacifier in Jan Svankmajer's Little Otik, but it sets off just as much anxiety.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
July 6, 2010
Delivers a formulaic-sounding conceit with enough unpredictability and downplayed sentiment to earn the heartwarming emotions that might too easily have arrived on cue.
March 26, 2009
Has a plot that sounds like it could easily be turned into bad comedy or melodrama but a talented, genuine cast keep it real.