A bracingly mature film that tackles weighty issues in an intelligent and sober manner -- at least until the home stretch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2021

[Love with the Proper Stranger] seemed to me so curious a mixture of old-fashioned schmaltz and up-to-the-minute grubbiness that I could conclude only that I was the slightest bit over the hill.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2020

Not perfect, but touching and adult; with fine work from the two leads, this is one of Mulligan's better films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2016

Exemplifies the lacerating realism that cinema had just barely invented.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 8, 2015

Co-starring with the charismatic Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood received a second Oscar nomination for this well acted melodrama about pregnancy out of the wedlock

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 4, 2012

Underrated romantic drama, with rich NYC atmosphere and a trenchant look at sexual mores.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Fortunately the film survives these shortcomings through its sheer breezy good nature and the animal magnetism of its two stars.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

Familiar in theme, but given a delightfully fresh flavour by Mulligan's atmospherically low-key direction, excellent performances from Wood and McQueen, and vivid location shooting in New York's Little Italy.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

The picture itself is diverting, but weak on that main romantic point.

Full Review | May 9, 2005

Quaint, old-fashioned, and overwrought.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 27, 2004

[Wood is] well matched by McQueen and even better served by Mulligan's unsensational direction.

Full Review | May 24, 2003