Fresh
Droll and amusing.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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Sweet and Lowdown
Overview
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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77%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A shallow portrait of the artist as a cad.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
There is enjoyment to be had from Sweet and Lowdown.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
Emmet Ray is a fictional character, but so convincing in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown that he seems like a real chapter of jazz history we somehow overlooked.
Roger Ebert, At the Movies
Fresh
A snappy, loose-limbed performance from Penn.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
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