Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Reviews

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• you can pretty much guess the rest

  by Ella Taylor [NPR ]

• you can have a reasonably nice time at Salmon Fishing in the Yemen if you accept that it's the tidiest movie imaginable to ever say that falling in love is like swimming upstream

  Review rate : B by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• will play very, very well for parents and older audience members

  by James Rocchi [MSN Movies ]

• trying to get audiences to root for whether fish will swim upstream is often an easier task than getting them to care about whether the two leads will hook up

  by Edward Douglas [ComingSoon.net ]

• the movie is burdened with a perfunctory subplot in which the sheik becomes the target of an assassination plot by Islamic extremists

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• the movie has a hard time wrapping up its love story without feeling forced, however game the cast

  by John DeFore [Hollywood Reporter ]

• the first section of the film deploys chipper barbs at the expense of career bureaucrats, which is funny and effective

  by Mark Holcomb [Village Voice ]

• the film's emotional complexities don't allow for much of the canned sentiment that normally gets dished out in romantic dramas

  by Amy Biancolli [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• some beautifully photographed establishing shots, and an ending that is satisfying in an old-fashioned kind of way

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• no wonder the invasively upbeat scoreand the obviously reshot ending, which would have played either outrageously comedic or profoundly tragic in its original form, but instead just brings our attention back to the fish

  by Peter Debruge [Variety ]

• it's hard not to feel there is hope for romance, the possibility of peace and even a little patience for politics

  by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

• it's a spirited, eloquent film-delightfully offbeat, deliciously different and well worth investigating

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• dumbed-down romp may allude obliquely to current events, but it's strictly old-world in style

  by Greg Quill [Toronto Star ]

• boasts an easygoing narrative that's been peppered with cute bits of humor and romcom shenanigan

  by David Nusair [Reel Film Reviews ]

• a mushy combination of dreamy travelogue

  by David Fear [Time Out New York ]

• a missed opportunity, a promising replica of the golden era of screen comedy that becomes mired in increasingly unwelcome narrative muck

  by Kevin Lally [Film Journal International ]

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