The US release of Cristian Nemescu's "California Dreamin' (endless)" enjoyed an enthusiastic reception from the US media. Please find below a selection of the film's reviews.

• The New York Times, January 23, 2009: The Americans Arrive and Cultures Collide, by A. O. Scott. NYT Critics' Pick
  "California Dreamin’ is a rambunctious, closely observed comedy of cultural collision, its satirical gaze aimed at Romania’s foibles and also at the sometimes lethal absurdities of geopolitics... Its themes are serious, but they are addressed with a playful exuberance that suggests a young man’s unbridled delight in every aspect of filmmaking."
  "... [the film] has always has something interesting to say; in particular, I think, to American audiences... Viewed through the lens of the Iraq war — which was surely on Mr. Nemescu’s mind in 2006 — this odd little Clinton-era anecdote takes on some unsettling resonances."
  
• Village Voice, January 20, 2009: America the (Not Always) Beautiful Chugs Through Small-Town Romania in California Dreamin', by J. Hoberman
  "Ambitious and somewhat allegorical in its situation comedy"
  "That this posthumous movie's open ending seems cautiously optimistic makes it all the more poignant."
  
• The New Yorker, February 2, 2009: Americans at large, by Anthony Lane
  "This was Nemescu’s first feature as a director, and we will never know exactly how the finished film would have looked; the regret, though deep, is not all-consuming, because “California Dreamin’ ” bears almost no trace of the tyro. It could use a trim, but only rarely does it strain for effect, and, for a young man, Nemescu was uncannily versed in the emotions of middle age—free-floating rancor, the creak of unhelpful wisdom, and a covetous sigh at the spectacle of lust. If it’s regret you want, don’t mourn the director; just watch his movie."
  "So busily, and wittily, does Nemescu show these characters striking their various political attitudes (there is a hapless intrusion from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) that the film has no time to get locked into an attitude of its own. What it has, instead, is an appetite for human quiddity, and an eye for those fleeting shocks in which cultures strike and rebound."
  
• Time Out New York, January 22, 2009: California Dreamin', by Ben Waiters
  " California Dreamin’ is a deft fable that maps global concerns onto a local story with confidence and wit. "
  "Nemescu taps the carnivalesque possibilities of his setup to great effect, but keeps things grounded in naturalistic technique and sophisticated characterization."
  
• The New York Post, January 27, 2009: OFF-TRACK BEDDING CALIFORNIA DREAMIN', by V. A. Musetto
  "California Dreamin' shows Nemescu's talent as a writer and director. He's especially good at screwball comedy."
  
• The New York Observer, January 22, 2009: Peace, Love and Understanding, by Andrew Sarris
• The New Yorker, January 26, 2009: Opening - California Dreamin'
• slantmagazine.com, January 16, 2009: California Dreamin’, by Andrew Schenker
  "California Dreamin' is many things—a culture-clash comedy, a satire of petty-minded provincialism, a critique of American foreign involvement, and even a sliver of a love story—but in the hands of preternaturally gifted and, sadly, prematurely deceased filmmaker Cristian Nemescu, the film plays out with an impressive singularity of purpose."
  
• twi-ny.com, January 2009: California Dreamin’, by Mark Rifkin