lush and elegant with beautiful performances, the jazzy period melodrama "Sylvie's Love" plays many notes exceptionally well; Plotting and pacing asides, "Sylvie's Love" is a rich and graceful picture in passages
electric chemistry between Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha ignites this loving, lovely tribute to Hollywood melodramas; It's such a woozily romantic film, soaring and crashing with great force, taking us along with it
a love not quite supreme, but pretty good; it's a film awash in scrupulously researched vintage production design, costumes and above all music, all rendered in a Technicolor palette that will send fans of Golden Age cinema swooning with nostalgia
a deliriously old-fashioned, naively plotted romance between a jazz musician and an aspiring TV exec set in 1960s New York City; a weightlessly glossy yet undeniably charming romance
