Trying to navigate love and intimacy in the digital age, a woman and her boyfriend's teenage children become unlikely guides in each others relationships.... (Full plot summary below)
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Trying to navigate love and intimacy in the digital age, a woman and her boyfriend's teenage children become unlikely guides in each others relationships.
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| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWhile the screenplay by De Paolis and Sarah Nerboso falters in its melodramatic plot elements, its incisive characterizations and well-drawn smaller moments provide some compensation. |
| Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangDirector-star Livia De Paolis sets out to reassure everybody that the Internet won't destroy all relationships in her agreeable but unnecessary family drama Emoticon ;). |
| The DissolveKate ErblandDespite its slim 79-minute runtime, Emoticon ;) is crammed with a startling number of subplots, which mostly struggle to address some of the large issues they present and subsequently abandon. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerWith its underwritten characters (especially Walter) and scenes, it seems like a generic ABC Family plotline melded to a commercial for Facebook, Twitter and Skype. |
| Village VoiceChris PackhamEmoticon ;), a vanity project written, directed, starring, and sung by Livia De Paolis, is a grown-up's weird idea of how kids behave. |