AllRovi calls it a "funny and oddly poignant film".

Richard Harrington of the Washington Post calls the film "a funny, poignant and technically proficient film."

The AllRovi entry describes it as a "funny and oddly poignant film."

The film details the slow disintegration of his family, and is one of the most poignant films ever made on India's partition.

In this poignant film, Marion attempts a similar strategy by re-parenting the orphaned children.

Hollywood, by contrast, sees the French movie industry as deeply talented in the creation of poignant films of stupefying dullness.

This mutedly poignant film about a smart young girl's up-and-down relationship with her sixth-grade peers is virtually gadget-free.

Repulsive as she is, in this poignant film she makes you aware of your own deeply uncivilized roots.

It was a poignant film, which she wished had been longer.

And because the civilian brother's struggles are as movingly portrayed as the soldier's, it is a poignant film rather than a tract about veterans' problems.