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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Mostly mediocre melodrama, though the actors suffering over love's labors lost are quite fine.
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70
New Times (L.A.) by Bill Gallo
Paul Cox's admirers are sure to embrace this latest eruption of sincerity and sensitivity.
63
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
It's reassuring to see love and sex in one's 70s depicted as fully replenishing. At the same time, it's sobering to think that it's no easier in the twilight of life to make rational decisions regarding the heart.
88
This is a beautifully acted chamber piece --especially by the magnificent Blake, who is married to Norris in real life.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
A beautifully acted, intensely felt story.
78
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
The originality of Innocence makes it stand apart from the romantic pack.
63
Innocence is a gentle love story, one that touches on an issue of great sensitivity -- sexuality in old age.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Remarkable in several big ways.
75
No situation could be more human, and it's one the youth-dominated film industry rarely touches.
40
Chicago Reader by Ronnie Scheib
It's all so overdetermined -- each encounter of the present-day lovers mirrors some moment from the long-ago day when they parted -- that it reduces their whole affair to a matter of last-minute revisionism.