Though the progress of this ill-matched love triangle is fun to follow in its self-consciously wacky way, the movie's chief pleasures, at least to a Western eye, are anthropological.
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Like an early Almodovar movie transported to Moscow.
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Seriously sexy stuff from -- surprise -- the former-Soviet Union.
63
New York Daily NewsRobert Dominguez
New York Daily NewsRobert Dominguez
Quirky, character-driven comedy.
60
Village Voice
Village Voice
Not without its loopy charms. Indeed, the film is most buoyant when most over-the-top.
Comedy is ever an effective weapon against hypocrisy and oppression, but to be effective it has to cut a lot sharper and deeper than it does in You I Love.
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Wavers between would-be satire and romantic drama, inhabiting neither mode convincingly.
50
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
There might have been something in this stew if the screenwriter and directors had stayed in the moment, but to actually explore the tough stuff they bring up might have made this movie less cool and breezy.
There's not much in the way of message here. Or wit. Or convincing sexual chemistry. You I Love' just wants to say that young Muscovites are wild and crazy guys and that they can laugh at capitalism's excesses.