"Robert Duvall's Angelo My Love, from his screenplay,...is not quite a documentary and not quite a fictional narrative, but a new breed of vital hybrid by a tough and honest sensibility. If Duvall has a bias, it reveals itself in the low-key realism of a lived-in experience, not in the actor's impulse of his more prolific rival, John Cassavetes. The story of the charismatic youth Angelo Evans and that of his family and related gypsies in New York City deals more with the recording of a lifestyle than with the tracing of a stolen heirloom that has been inserted as a plot catalyst. The film is a warm bundle of behavioral whimsy whose vitality and variety save it from condescending humanism. Duvall not only keeps the hamminess of his gypsy cast in check, he also achieves moments of universal truth that are completely unexpected from his minutely detailed milieu." Andrew Sarris, Tom Allen, Village Voice