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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Never becomes cloying. Read more
John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune: The film is plenty charming, but lacks a connection to its time and place that would put Valentin's dilemma in context. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: A heartfelt story that would have been a sickly sweet mess in the hands of a Hollywood studio. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... features one of the best performances by a child actor that I've seen in a long time. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The winsome child/unappreciative adults memoir is almost a genre unto itself. But this version is particularly well-cast and well-told. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie plays simply on the surface. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Valentin does not quite complete its intended journey deep into our hearts. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Agresti fattens us up with the kind of kid's-eye-view tragi-comic adventures that regularly supply empty calories in artificially sweetened foreign-language imports like this one. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: As a whole Valentin is cloying, consistently overplaying its young star's pathos and cuteness. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Seen as the wishful coming-of-age of a writer, who escapes tribulation through imagination, the semi-autobiographical movie seems less sentimental and makes a lot more sense. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: It's not that Noya is bad as kid actors go, but a pair of dewy, crossed eyes and a beyond-his-years melancholy do not an entire movie make. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The whole thing feels like nothing more than just a calculated entry in the international tyke-of-the-month club. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Funny, gentle and utterly captivating. Read more
Dave Kehr, New York Times: A slight variation on a formula that, from Central Station to Kolya, has become all too familiar in the art houses. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A melancholy and overly familiar thing. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although Valentin is well acted and sporadically charming, it doesn't have much more heft that one might expect from lightweight multiplex fare. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film is warm and intriguing. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The characters in the Argentinean heart-warmer Valentin spend so much time squabbling and yelling that after a while I began to long for a nice movie about a family of mutes. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: A film at once heavy-handed, scattered and heartfelt. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Sporting thick, black-rimmed glasses, a runaway imagination and enough nervous energy to light up Manhattan, Noya turns what could have been a pitiful character into a rambunctious imp. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Agresti has a decent cast here, but his story is so thin, it threatens to float right off the screen, even when late plot developments add a twist or two. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: It makes February's Monsieur Ibrahim linger in the mind even more pleasantly. Read more
Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice: This loosely autobiographical tale feels inorganically upbeat, with all potentially upsetting material glossed over or truncated. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Read more