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You'll need a soft spot for this kind of whimsy, and mine sadly is like reinforced concreteby Peter Bradshaw [Guardian ]
Though the ending feels tacked on, there's imagination here as well as styleby Derek Malcolm [This is London ]
there is enough saving grace on these craggy shores to let the mists and the legends roll in and envelop you for a whileby Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]
strikingly suggestiveby Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine ]
Ondine looks heavy and it ends up feeling a little slight, but between those two extremes there's a beguiling siren song of a movie about the way the unexpected has a way of intruding on even the most fatalistic livesReview rate : B by Keith Phipps [A.V. Club ]
Ondine is ultimately more a flawed exercise in storytelling than an honest-to-God failureby Chris Cabin [http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2009/ondine/ ]
Ondine effectively sustains a mood of a hazy melancholy most affecting when nothing much is happeningby Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]
If only the film had stuck with its fairy-tale story. Instead, the final 30 minutes turn into a bloody thriller with a tacked-on happy endingby V.A. Musetto [NY Post ]
Funny, whimsical and as warming as a big bowl of Irish stewby David Hughes [Empire Magazine ]
a pure delight and resonant beyond its slight contoursby Pam Grady [Boxoffice Magazine ]
A lyrical, if slight, breeze of an Irish fableby Michael Rechtshaffen [Hollywood Reporter ]
A fairy tale mashed up against the jagged unpleasantries of the modern worldby Todd McCarthy [Variety ]