Fresh
Film that emerges is brave, in many ways fascinating, and in all respects of a caliber rarely seen.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
A fifteen years old foster child tries to establish friendship with the kids of the family she visits for Christmas.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
Rotten
A piece of posturing phoniness designed to awe spectators who like their psychodramas third-hand and upscale.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Mr. Allen is becoming an immensely sophisticated director, but this screenplay is in need of a merciless literary editor.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
The storytelling is fluid and dramatic -- almost theatrical -- the film glows with light and the design is economically artful.
Joe Brown, Washington Post
Rotten
Once again, Allen has mistaken unfunny for serious, feeling the breath of immortality on his shoulder.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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