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

  • 75
    Chicago Tribune |

    It turns out a success, tempering its farfetched scenario with enough restraint and believability to pass for a modest parable of modern manners. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    Sam Garbarski's use of slow-motion shots is pretentious, and he paces the film too slowly. But he captures the seedy side of London, giving you a feel for Soho during the day when sunshine exposes a cheap gaudiness. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Genially preposterous and pleasantly diverting, it balances calculation against humanity and generally comes out on top. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Ray Bennett

    Marianne Faithfull is unforgettable as a middle-class, middle-aged frump in Sam Garbarski's crowd-pleasing comedy-drama Irina Palm. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Irina Palm is, for the most part, a phony trifle, but at its heart, somehow, is a real and fascinating person. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    It is, however, a baby boomer's treat to see Faithfull, romancer of Mick Jagger back in the day and a pop siren in her own right, show her qualities as an actor. One is hopeful she'll find her way to other, better projects. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Janice Page

    Doesn't deliver on a lot of fronts. But then again it gives us full-on Faithfull, who manages to bare herself completely without ever actually getting undressed. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Joe Neumaier

    Plays like a throwback to gritty-but-softhearted English dramas of the 1980s like "Mona Lisa" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid." Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    Astonishingly, pic reaped hearty guffaws at Berlinale press show, suggesting this might play best in Europe, but Anglophone auds are more likely to give Palm the thumbs down. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice |

    Nobody can reduce tawdry material to doddering quaintness like the British, but this staggeringly inane joint effort of U.K., Belgian, French, German, and Luxembourgian film financing represents a true coalition of the witless. Read full review

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