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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceGerman director Andreas Dresen has made an oddly buoyant little film about loneliness: Part Sex in der City, part Dogme doldrums, Summer in Berlin is most affecting as a character study of two women in their late thirties.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe low-key realism is so meticulously maintained that Summer in Berlin feels somewhat trivial. There is nothing larger here than meets the eye. It is "Sex and the City" on a stringent budget with fewer characters.
- 50Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChicago ReaderAndrea GronvallNothing much is original in this soggy tale of two German women whose friendship persists despite adversity and their own bad choices.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe modest splash made by Andreas Dresen's Dogme-styled 2002 drama "Grill Point" raised expectations his projects since haven't quite met, including the new Summer in Berlin.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe result is entertaining but hardly memorable.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe movie tends to wander between story lines and characters without any real sense of purpose.