MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

monyilea Even if you're not a big fan of Romanian movies (like me), because they're a mostly darkish, dreary, flat display of Communist times, you'll love this movie because it's nothing like that and it will really make you burst out laughing. So ya, Romanian-Film Allergy dies under Garlic!Garlic is a fresh, funny, positive movie, with an original plot, great music and well-paced rhythm (especially to the end). The two perky child-protagonists are a genuine talent, very gifted and authentically imperfect, just like most of the non-professional cast. Watching the entertaining story of the two Gypsy clans is like watching a shred of authentic Transylvanian life, always tempted to ask yourself if this is really real, 'cause it surely seems so. Naïve, twisted and idealistic, the adventure of the two children to Hollywood is actually the daring adventure of this film, having the exact amount of foolishness and (especially ethnic) cliché-mocking to make it a brilliant comedy. There's also a lot of truth hidden in many jokes.Definitely worth seeing, not to mention it's an independent film on a very low budget!Congrats to the entire crew and cast! Hope to be continued

Horatiu Ripa "All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Well, this is this movie is about. And more.First you cannot avoid to relate to Kusturica's "Black cat, white cat" but pretty soon you'll find out something completely different. "Usturoi" is about being human, being kind and it's about innocence. It touches even hard themes like chauvinism/racism not from a philosophical-social frown perspective but through the eyes of the children or the heart of a mother and reminds us that we're all the same, just in different contexts. The movie doesn't pretend to be profound and mind blowing, it's a extremely positive fair comedy, but, interesting enough, it lets behind some unfinished home-works about own pre- and mis- conceptions.And IT'S A COMEDY! You laugh watching it. I'm tired of comedies that didn't even make me smile; boring and full of stereotypes. It's a real comedy, a positive one, not a satire, you enjoy this movie. You don't have the feeling that you stupidly lost two hours of your life.Last but not least, the film is excellent, without lowering your expectations knowing the fact that it's a (very) low budget independent production. From all the points of view. It's a "must see".

Varga Radu This movie is not authentic in any way. Someone was comparing this to Gadjo Dilo: they are not similar in any way! The gypsies are not gypsies, the hungarians are not hungarian, almost every accent is forced. The idea of the movie is good (a mockumentary about the current life in a transylvanian village near Cluj), the stereotypes and relations between certain ethnical inhabitants are taken from reality, but the actual realization of the film is very poor. I felt like I was watching TV. Another aspect besides poor acting and poor humor, is the fact that the editing and sound of the movie are very tiring, the cuts are very frequent, the shots are short, the music is loud and a lot of times inappropriate, the voices of the actors are often inaudible because of poor sound recording.This is not authentic, this is a kitsch.

Mathijs Panhuijsen You might expect a movie from Romania to deal with heavy subjects such as corruption, poverty and organized crime. "Usturoi" does none of the above. Instead, it's a light-hearted and often hilarious road movie/mockumentary that follows the exploits of two boys (both played by impressive and talented child actors) from the Romanian countryside who are looking to make money in the big city for entirely unselfish motives. Fast-paced and edited for optimal comedic effect by cutting back and forth between interviews with the movie's main players and the story as it unfolds, it's a feelgood movie from a region that too often has a "feelbad" reputation. Go see it!