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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    L.A. Weekly | F. X. Feeney

    First-time director Baltasar Kormakur -- balances tones with a smooth, mature confidence. Read full review

  • 80
    Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard

    In spirit, 101 Reykjavík is so Almodóvar that it could melt the polar icecap. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Derek Elley

    A funny, touching, off-the-wall relationer that's one of the freshest helming debuts in world cinema this year. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Lola is played by veteran Spanish actress Victoria Abril, one of Pedro Almodovar's favorites, and though the character sounds familiar, Abril brings so much zest and enthusiasm to its creation that it feels original and makes the passion she inspires believable. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    A wonderful, cockeyed sex comedy. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Feels as though it is not about much, but it is so well acted that the lassitude becomes a part of the atmosphere. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    The tone of the film is in keeping with its most resounding image: Hilynur lying in the snow with a cigarette dangling from his mouth as the suicide note on his chest blows away in the wind as he wakes up. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Much of this is pretty funny, in its perverse, disorienting style, and there's an irrepressible sunniness to the relationship between Lola and Hlynur's mother. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Wilmington

    Fun to watch it may be, but it's shallow fun. Like the drugs and booze the characters keep using -- and even the sex -- it's a passing pleasure. Read full review

  • 60
    Village Voice | Dennis Lim

    Kormakur's debut feature fulfills the basic requirements of good slacker comedy: It's grounded in quotidian tedium and frustration, and it acknowledges both the humor and pathos of the relevant coping mechanisms (here, lackadaisical flings, porn addiction, amnesia-courting binges). Read full review

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