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 "Moving and vibrant."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
 "At once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"With all the sympathy, empathy and pity fogging up the screen...His Secret Life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles."
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
"Ozpetek offers an AIDS subtext, skims over the realities of gay sex, and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight, middle class bores like Antonia can feel good about themselves."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"This is a thoughtful, affecting film, filled with absorbing characters."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"The tone shifts abruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy."
-- Kim Linekin, EYE WEEKLY
"Ozpetek succeeds in portraying small nuances that demonstrate the stages of love -- unrequited or blossoming -- and in showcasing the family structure created by a group of people who have been rejected for one reason or another."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by Gianni Romoli ... Ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The two leads give wonderful performances and when they try to connect with each other it's as awkward and desperate as you would expect, also real and touching."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity, Ozpetek falls short in showing us Antonia's true emotions ... But at the very least, His Secret Life will leave you thinking."
-- Marta Barber, MIAMI HERALD
"Director Ferzan Ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group, who live in the same apartment building. But he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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"It treats us to beautiful insights and tragic struggles that swell the heart and make us feel genuine empathy for two people embracing the truth amidst a pack of lies."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"This is lightweight filmmaking, to be sure, but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men."
-- Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN
"Spreads itself too thin, leaving these actors, as well as the members of the commune, short of profound characterizations"
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"At times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated (depending upon where you live), Ignorant Fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two."
-- Brandon Judell, POPCORNQ
"Despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"An emotionally resounding, life-affirming film of surprising connections and affections."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"What is unique about His Secret Life is that an assumption of intelligence, tolerance, and acceptance is already made, and thus the movie can focus on telling a compelling story."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
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-- Luca Bandirali, REVISION
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"A warm but realistic meditation on friendship, family and affection."
-- Matt Weitz, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Buy is an accomplished actress, and this is a big, juicy role."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"As Antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community, the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure, daytime-drama sort of fashion."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"It's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives Secret Life its intermittent unease, reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality, and that erasing them recasts the self."
-- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE
"Ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original, but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"It's a lovely film with lovely performances by Buy and Accorsi."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"It recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"Full of profound, real-life moments that anyone can relate to, it deserves a wide audience."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"A boisterous, occasionally deft but also finally strained and uneven work."
-- Patrick Z. McGavin, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A movie that grows better by the minute."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"Pure of intention and passably diverting, His Secret Life is light, innocuous and unremarkable."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
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