The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Critic Reviews
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The filmmakers succeed with an unexpected ending. It's as fresh as everything in the movie, which turns out to be about so much more than one youngster's resilience.Read the full review
It really only comes alive in its shots of people in the neighborhood sitting around their television sets. What we're really talking about here is a problem in scope. In Hamburger's film, the world is no bigger than a cup.Read the full review
The performances are charming and convincing, and Mr. Joelsas does a good job of conveying Mauro’s loneliness and confusion as well as his playfulness. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation may not be terribly fresh or original, but its warm, sweet, nostalgic tone is hard to dislike.Read the full review
Sensitive, delicate and involving.Read the full review
A sweet and somber film that works hard to overcome its limitations.Read the full review
What The Year My Parents Went on Vacation seems to be about, in the end, is big-time sport as the opiate of the masses.Read the full review
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