Release dates
September 30, 2016
105 months agoCinema
Released
TBA
A Man Called Ove (I) release date
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What the critics say
Based on 11 reviews, A Man Called Ove (I) gets an average review score of 71
It would have been easy to just let Ove coast by on his amusing grouchiness, but Lassgård lets us see so deeply under that protective exterior. We feel as if we’ve walked a mile in Ove’s shoes and absorbed his catharsis as our own.
3108d ago
Holm seamlessly switches between the older and younger Oves, and calling this the story of an unlikely friendship only scratches the surface. The unpredictable narrative is slow to show its hand, but as we learn more about our surly protagonist, Lassgård makes it impossible not to root for the depressed, guarded, and ultimately endearing Ove.
3108d ago
We’ve seen these poignant lessons before: Ove is destined to learn that he can’t do it all on his own and that life is still worth living. Yet the moving twists and turns of the love story and the bright comedy elevate an otherwise familiar story line.
3108d ago
Sweet and flinty in roughly equal measure, the movie's a big hit in its native country.
3108d ago
'A Man Called Ove': A suicidal widower rediscovers his joie de vivre.
3108d ago
For all its earnestness though, “A Man Called Ove” is still painfully predictable, and much of its sentimentality is telegraphed from a mile off.
3108d ago
A Man Called Ove has some tear-jerking moments, but the film is so carefully designed — with long, circular takes that seem to surround the main characters at crucial fateful points — that technique often triumphs over sentimentality.
3108d ago
Movies about grumpy old men learning to lighten up thanks to colorful neighbors are hardly novel. And yet A Man Called Ove (based on Fredrik Backman's 2012 novel) works its well-worn conceit to effective heartstring-tugging effect.
3108d ago
It's emotionally manipulative, but its leads find a core of humanity even in the most calculating plot machinations.
3108d ago
Sweden’s entry in the foreign-language Oscar race is the portrait of a grumpy old man whose neighbors refuse to write him off.
3108d ago
Good-hearted stuff, to be sure, but mainly of interest to lovers of cinematic comfort food.
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