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Russian Doll

Russian Doll

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Harvey, a self-doubting private investigator, plans to marry his girlfriend until he is hired to solve an adultery case and discovers the adulterer is cheating with his fiancée. Lost and dejected, Harvey quits his job and wallows in booze and the occasional odd blind date. Meanwhile, Katia, a Jewish woman from St. Petersburg, arrives in Sydney after answering an ad from an international matchmaking agency. But instead of love, she finds her prospective groom dead on arrival.

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75

Miami Herald

A breezy pleasure.

70

Variety by Dennis Harvey

A romantic comedy that treads familiar "Green Card" terrain with considerable charm if no great style or originality.

50

New York Post by Jonathan Foreman

Resolves the romantic dilemma in the most artificial and unsatisfying way. A blaring swing score and some obvious dubbing do little to ease the pain.

50

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Baldly superficial, it probably should have been given a less demanding metaphor to live up to.

40

L.A. Weekly by Paul Malcolm

Kazantzidis struggles for the flavor of classic romance, with a string of standards on the soundtrack to little avail.

40

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Lurches queasily between ghastly broad gags and oddly engaging, character-driven laughs born of clashing cultures and expectations.

30

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Quickly becomes silly and tedious.

30

New Times (L.A.) by Luke Y. Thompson

If you peel away the surface of this movie, one is left with not much at all.

20

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

The cheesy idiot-twin of Pawel Pawlikowski's superb "Last Resort."

20

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Blends the least of Woody Allen with a plot complication out of "Love, American Style," stuck together with sitcom glue.