Critic Reviews

• Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle

  The script is as bland as they come.

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  While the story is pure contrivance -- two antagonistic performers get handcuffed together, fighting until they fall in love -- the soundtrack is lively and the characters grow on you.

• Sara Stewart, New York Post

  It's a nice, mud-free way to spend a bit of time rocking out in the rain with the Scots.

• Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

  If the film is to work at all - and it eventually does - the two 27-year-old leads must radiate enough star quality to obviate the ramshackle plot. They just about do.

• Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

  If only the falling-in-love machinations and character details weren't so wispy, "Tonight You're Mine" might have had more resonance.

• A.O. Scott, New York Times

  "Tonight You're Mine" is as ephemeral as its title - as thin as a jukebox dime but pretty catchy all the same.

• Eric Melin, Scene-Stealers.com

  Filled with colorful characters that seem real and a surprising sense of spontaneity, spurred in part by its backdrop. Director David MacKenzie has pulled off a movie with the kind of easy charm that most romcoms struggle with.

• Ed Gibbs, The Sunday Age

  We're left with the deflated feeling that we've witnessed something initially promising that proves wholly inconsequential.

• Jim Schembri, 3AW

  What could have been a perfectly fine premise for a high-key comedy is negated by the fact that both lead characters are incalculably unappealing.

• Simon Foster, sbs.com.au

  The final frames finally rouse a little 'movie magic' but for the bulk of the 80 minutes it takes to get there, this raucous, rambling mess finds its energy from some great music moments... and very little else.

• CJ Johnson, ABC Radio (Australia)

  The climax is almost unbearably joyful. Feel-good movie of the year, thus far? Absolutely.

• Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

  Unlike most romantic comedies in which the couple-to-be are constantly kept apart, in You Instead they are literally cuffed together. It's an interesting inversion and thanks to the excellent leads, it works a treat

• Nora Lee Mandel, Film-Forward.com

  Cheerfully rocking alternative to Hollywood sappy, romantic comedies. . .Treadaway and Tena are a magnetic roller coaster at the center. Casting actors who can rock pays off.

• Jonathan W. Hickman, Daily Film Fix

  Director David MacKenzie goes indie both with the washed out video look of the images and the ambient Altmanesque sound design.

• Austin Kennedy, Sin Magazine

  It took a bit for me to get into it, but the characters eventually won me over.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  The dialogue is terrible. Most of the time I was watching "Tonight You're Mine," I was wishing that whatever band was onstage would drown out these annoying drips.

• Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

  Improvisational and cold to the touch, the picture is a noble failure, capturing the musty rush of a music festival and all of its madness, with a dreary love story awkwardly wedged into the film, souring the atmosphere.

• Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue.com

  The atmosphere might be appealing, but the contrived plotting cancels out most of the enjoyment in this low-budget romantic comedy.

• Robert Levin, Film School Rejects

  If you're after an interesting cinematic experience about convincing characters facing some sort of meaningful human dilemma, it'd be best to keep on looking.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  "I've known her ten hours and I know her better than you," the hero tells his romantic rival in this contrived bore, by which time you'll also feel like ten hours have passed.

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