Only Human(Seres queridos)

Chicago Reader by

Toledo is very funny, and there are some hilarious comic bits, but writer-directors Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri drag in several distracting subplots, turning this 2004 Spanish comedy into a scattershot affair.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

A movie that is never elegant but is often hysterically funny, and maintains a rabbit-on-speed pace that Hollywood comedy long ago abandoned.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

The slapstick gets a little too silly, and a rushed ending feels unsatisfying. But everyone whose family boasts an excess of opinions will relate.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Cheery, expertly constructed Spanish farce.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

There's nothing subtle about Pelegri and Harari's culture-clash romp, but it's sometimes frantically funny; that it's thoroughly forgettable is an issue only if you expect it to do more than poke easy fun at the thorny issues it raises.

The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann

As directors, Harari and De Pelegri have just the right light-fingered glissando touch. Not a moment sags. Their cast relishes and fulfills the tempo.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Moves along briskly, with several laugh-out-loud moments.

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

A dinner-from-hell comedy about a pretty Jewish Spaniard who brings a nice Palestinian guy home to her outspoken Madrid family.