Ciao: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

27%

RottenTomatoes: 12 reviews

Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Deeply sincere and exceedingly slow even at 87 minutes, Ciao involves two strangers who become acquaintances after the death of a mutual friend.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

It's made on the smallest of budgets and features awkward if sincere performances, yet Yen Tan's film still manages to strike a series of plangent emotional truths about speaking one's heart and moving on.
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Ed Gonzalez Village Voice (Top Critic)

The film's calculatingly minimalist style is in many ways as affected as all the gay Amerindie films at which writer-director Yen Tan snottily thumbs his nose.
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Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

In Yen Tan's glacially paced movie (every shot is relentlessly symmetrical), the actors are squares in graph-paper compositions.
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Ronnie Scheib Variety (Top Critic)

Helmer/co-scripter Tan conceives of his two characters as complementing each other within a minor key.
Full Review » 4 years ago
V.A. Musetto New York Post (Top Critic)

50

The story is so minimal that it almost doesn't exist.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

90

Yen Tan's Ciao is a revelation, a minimalist work of maximum effect. It is determinedly understated and consistently expressive, beautifully composed yet never studied.
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Gerald Peary Boston Phoenix

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Ruthe Stein San Francisco Chronicle

50

Ciao moves at a snail's pace. It feels long even at its abbreviated length.
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John P. McCarthy Boxoffice Magazine

30

In theory, there's no reason a movie shouldn't endeavor to be somber and tentatively hopeful at the same time. In practice, unfortunately, Ciao is depressing and ploddingly elegiac.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Donald J. Levit ReelTalk Movie Reviews

The plotline of 'Ciao' is trite -- and the filmmaking itself drags.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Anna King Time Out New York

34

It's hard to shake the feeling that the onscreen words stick too close to the facts: The dialogue drags, making the viewer like an invisible third wheel at a nervous, slightly dull first date.
Full Review » 3 years ago