And the love story within the film is presented like his big break: Yelchin frames it with the Central Park cutesiness of When Harry Met Sally, waxing rhapsodic about all the great stories behind the inscriptions in park benches, and offering what follows as one of his own. (thedissolve.com)
Beneath the sitcom cutesiness and boldfaced sentimentality, the film manages to keep just enough reality coursing through to stay grounded. (metacritic.com)
Pop Aye never dips into cutesiness or sentimentality, even when you might find yourself wishing it would; it's less a big - top circus and more a low - key character study. (metacritic.com)