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A powerful Czech drama with comic flourishes.
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Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano
Buoyed by an unreserved humanism and a cheerful sense of the absurd.
80
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
It skips from buoyant satire to domestic melodrama, leaving behind a curious mix of emotions.
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Always hard-hitting and often grimly, revealingly satirical.
80
A vibrant, immediate treatise on love and cultural identity in a complex new world of fluid borders and deep suspicions in the stunning new Czech drama Up and Down.
90
This fluidly paced film, with its keen observation of the confused longing for love, family and stability in an inherently unstable world, nonetheless keeps faith with the Czech genius for holding the tonal line between tragedy and the absurd.
70
Up and Down is not exactly the toughest movie on the block, but especially compared to most American comedies, it conveys a sense of scrofulous rue.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Up and Down captures Prague life with a fervor that's comical but a longing that's serious; no one is easy to pigeonhole.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Accomplished and affecting art house fare.
80
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
It's agreeable to see a picture that holds us without perspiring to do so. We are treated not as an audience but as café chums to whom a story is being told