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

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    The film is slick, beautifully acted and completely entrancing. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Carla Meyer

    Poignant and carefully observed, the Italian drama Facing Windows portrays two consuming, illicit romances: one in the present, the other kept alive in faulty memory. The long-ago relationship holds far more intrigue. Read full review

  • 75
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Facing Windows is rich stuff. Maybe too rich. But thanks to fine performances and a grounded script, the pieces of this intriguing little puzzle all manage to fit. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Ozpetek moves things along at a snail's pace and lays the sentiment down thickly. But it's a potent tale, wonderfully acted by Mezzogiorno and Massimo Girotti as the old man. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    There's something diverting but not wildly stirring about this Italian drama. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times |

    Far from a simple, feel-good story of self-discovery, Facing Windows delivers a challenging examination of loneliness and human interaction. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Despite its surreal touches and an improbable story that piles on the metaphors, the movie, which has a rich, honey-dripping score by Andrea Guerra, maintains a tone of refined heart-tugging realism. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Beautiful to look at and acted with full and tempestuous conviction, it still seems to be taking place in an apartment far across the way. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    This too-sentimental drama does feature a sterling performance by Giovanna Mezzogiorno as a love-struck housewife dissatisfied with her lot, thus providing the only watchable element of an otherwise disappointing movie. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Deborah Young

    Only partially succeeds in interweaving questions of family loyalty with historical memory and the fate of Italian Jews in WW2. Read full review

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