1. A film brimming with unexpected moments, bristling with creative energy and filled with humanity and compassion.
2. These characters are sympathetic.
3. It's an oddly affecting piece that manages to say something about isolation and loneliness in its own peculiar way.
4. This is the good stuff you wade through years of outwardly similar dross to get to -- though its distinctiveness isn't immediately apparent.
5. Here's a perfectly twee little romance all but smothered in a blanket of indie 'edge.'
6. ...July is playing on very dangerous ground here, making potential child molestation into comic plot points.
7. If Todd Solondz were a humanist, he might make something like performance artist Miranda July's winning debut feature film.
8. A charmingly odd movie about the adventure life has to offer, even in the form of department stores, hope chests and goldfish.
9. An intriguing piece of humanistic cinema.
10. So pure in its commitment to the world it has created, so fascinated by its bizarre characters and their idiosyncrasies and so wide-eyed and curious about life's possibilities that it is utterly unlike the work of any other filmmaker.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
Miranda July's debut feature is a charmingly offbeat and observant film about people looking for love.