Lost Embrace Critic Reviews

It's in the brightly observed vignettes from mall-society life, captured with a low-key, on-the-run visual style, that Burman shows his best stuff and deadpan wit.Read the full review

This is a small movie about a small world, but its modesty is part of what makes it durable and satisfying.Read the full review

It's a film of unexpected, almost indescribable off-center charm that deepens as it goes on.Read the full review

Strong stuff, and all the stronger for having taken itself so comically.Read the full review

Has a novelist's human touch. Were it a book, it would go somewhere on the shelf with Jonathan Safran Foer and early Philip Roth.Read the full review

A gentle comedy.Read the full review

At its best, Lost Embrace conveys, with real warmth, the hopelessly intertwined pasts and shared futures of a community of outsiders and immigrants. At worst, it's a sitcom without a laugh track.Read the full review

The film takes a whimsical view of this insular and sometimes daft environment where everyone's eccentricities are given an opportunity to shine.Read the full review

A general lack of drama, a low-budget documentary feel and an ultraslim storyline are more than compensated for by a sterling script and performances.Read the full review