Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

An Irish lark that blows in, trailing daffodils and the sniff of spring, from that adventurous releasing company Shooting Gallery Films.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

It's hard to stop quoting from a movie this good.

Los Angeles Times by Jan Stuart

A plucky comic valentine for those who love the movies more than their own mothers.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

It has that unwound Roddy Doyle humor; the laughs don't hit you over the head, but tickle you behind the knee.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

It's a winning little movie about two people who get together, though they have no business getting together.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

This is only a movie. But a good one. May Roddy Doyle give us many more.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A charmer.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Far from the first movie in which a fearless woman coaxes the inner tiger crouched inside a mild-mannered milquetoast to spring into action, but it is one of the most charming.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

There's still enough of Doyle's hilariously foul dialogue and outrageous, culture-shocked Irish characters for the film to be a good bit of fun.

Film.com by Tom Keogh

About two lives in which transformation is a constant, destabilizing threat to freedom and sanity. That's a very provocative premise, though halfway through the movie Doyle and Walsh abandon its potential to go for easy laughs.

Salon by Charles Taylor

It's a movie almost doomed to be called "refreshing," in the way that the word is used to excuse the game but amateurish presentation of a quirky premise.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

A too-cute-by-half Irish romantic comedy that's overloaded with movie references that begin with the title.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

McDonald and Montgomery are fun to watch in this mildly amusing Irish romantic comedy.

L.A. Weekly by Paul Malcolm

Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

Trudy is really the only character with the "Barrytown" zest, and Montgomery throws herself into the role with unselfconscious abandon. She makes the screen crackle with energy.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

It's the type of film that begs to be called “charming” and by doing so instead ends up grating.