Lost Embrace Critic Reviews

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

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

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

A gentle comedy.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

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

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

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

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