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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "Allen bathes the city in rain, romance and a healthy dose of the whimsy... Allen's right: Paris is enchanting... in any era." (Read the full review...) 135 words, 05/19/11 Richard Corliss, Time: FAIR "...though, dammit, I love Paris as much as the filmmaker does -- his 'Midnight' strikes not sublime chimes but the clangor of snap judgments and frayed fantasy." (Read the full review...) 1,031 words, 05/11/11 David Germain, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "The performances are mostly assured all around, with Bates simply commanding... Stoll drolly funny... Hiddleston utterly charming... and Brody hilarious..." (Read the full review...) 772 words, 05/19/11 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a delight... a nostalgic postcard to the City of Light." (Read the full review...) 94 words, 05/19/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an ingratiating, tourist-oriented exercise in nostalgia for a city that doesn't exist." (Read the full review...) 320 words, 05/20/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...infused with seductive secrets... for all the film's bracing humor, and ravishing romance, there are also haunting shadows. That alone makes it a keeper." (Read the full review...) 329 words, 05/13/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "Although less substantial than his best films, it's in the top third of the prolific Allen's work. And a better-than-average Woody Allen movie can be plenty good, indeed." (Read the full review...) 449 words, 05/20/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Owen Wilson is a key to the movie's appeal.... Another treasure in the film is Kathy Bates' performance.... Then there's Adriana (Marion Cotillard)..." (Read the full review...) 934 words, 05/27/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an absolutely terrific film, fleet and brisk and as charming as it wants to be. The jokes are largely solid and sometimes inspired..." (Read the full review...) 762 words, 05/16/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "...does not challenge greatness, but it's a nice, low-key way to spend 100 minutes." (Read the full review...) 970 words, 05/19/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...charming... marvelously romantic... has the inspired silliness of some of Mr. Allen's classic comic sketches..." (Read the full review...) 1,008 words, 05/20/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the New York filmmaker's most satisfying work since 'Bullets Over Broadway.' " (Read the full review...) 440 words, 05/20/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write again: Woody Allen has made a wonderful new picture... and it's his best, most enjoyable work in years." (Read the full review...) 681 words, 05/20/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a lightly amusing fantasy about a hack screenwriter who gets to hobnob with artistic legends in the City of Light of the 1920s." (Read the full review...) 556 words, 05/20/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...while Allen may not be reinventing any wheels, he still has it." (Read the full review...) 658 words, 05/27/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a deceptively light, offhandedly profound comedy. And Allen certainly gets Paris, capturing it in a wonderful, wordless opening montage of streetscapes." (Read the full review...) 318 words, 05/20/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: EXCELLENT "It isn't just Allen's best film in more than a decade; it's the only one that manages to rise above its tidy parable structure and be easy, graceful, and glancingly funny..." (Read the full review...) 706 words, 05/16/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Owen Wilson is a key to the movie's appeal.... Another treasure in the film is Kathy Bates' performance.... Then there's Adriana (Marion Cotillard)..." (Read the full review...) 934 words, 05/27/11 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "A deceptively light time-travel romance... uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get to the filmmaker's familiar, real-life-sourced themes..." (Read the full review...) 744 words, 05/18/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...more than delicious travelogue. Allen is musing on the folly of nostalgia, which seduces us with the thought that life just had to be better in the past." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 06/03/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "Allen's work here feels effortless, and that feather-light touch gives the picture its charm - modest but real." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 06/03/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...pretty slim." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 06/02/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...may be a mere bagatelle, but it's a beguiling one, brimming with sweetness and soul." (Read the full review...) 727 words, 05/27/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...improbable and surprisingly satisfying..." (Read the full review...) 632 words, 06/03/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...may not be as laugh-out-loud witty as the comedies of Woody Allen's professional Belle Epoque. But it at least recaptures the warm glow so often missing from his last 20 uneven years of work." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 06/03/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...makes you yearn for the time when brainy larks weren't a once-a-year occasion. Why, back in the '70s..." (Read the full review...) 602 words, 05/27/11 Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a delicious trifle for anyone who has ever dreamt of bantering about the cinema with Luis Buñuel or lounging at the piano to hear Cole Porter sing 'Let's Do It.' " (Read the full review...) 506 words, 05/27/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has the brisk, gimmicky half-life of one of Woody's New Yorker sketches." (Read the full review...) 741 words, 05/27/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...artfully re-creates two wonderful, long-gone pasts -- the '20s of Braque and Buñuel, and the '70s of giddy, goofy, just-thrilled-to-be-amusing Woody. And it's a pleasure to have both briefly back." (Read the full review...) 557 words, 05/20/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...loving and wistful and often hysterically funny." (Read the full review...) 604 words, 05/27/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...his happiest and best movie since 'Everyone Says I Love You.' " (Read the full review...) 530 words, 06/03/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a light and charming comic bonbon from writer-director Woody Allen... his most purely delightful film in many years." (Read the full review...) 806 words, 06/03/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a bonbon to ease the craving for Allen's earlier, funnier films." (Read the full review...) 448 words, 06/10/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...it's reassuring to know that Woody Allen's cerebral absurdity is still intact. It's not only there but thriving..." (Read the full review...) 487 words, 06/09/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a loving postcard to all things Eiffel... turns into a fairy tale balancing the timelessness of dissatisfaction with the beauty of human aspiration." (Read the full review...) 326 words, 06/10/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a terrific picture - an appealing, bubbly, intelligent fantasy made by a director in an unusually playful mood." (Read the full review...) 528 words, 06/03/11
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "A deceptively light time-travel romance... uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get to the filmmaker's familiar, real-life-sourced themes..." (Read the full review...) 744 words, 05/18/11 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: EXCELLENT (cg) "...enjoyable and funny and lovely to look at, not all we could ask from Allen, but the kind of fanciful and well-acted movie he still does better than anybody." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 05/18/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Woody Allen's funniest movie since 'Deconstructing Harry' (1997), the last time he indulged in such a playful conceit." (Read the full review...) 173 words, 05/26/11 Keith Phipps, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "An unassuming wisp of a movie... entertaining enough, but unmistakably the work of a later, lesser Woody Allen era." (Read the full review...) 464 words, 05/19/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Allen's love for the past has sometimes come off as sepia-toned affectation. With 'Midnight in Paris' he burns off all that pretense." (Read the full review...) 1,112 words, 05/14/11 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...survives missteps almost entirely because of Owen Wilson's exquisitely confident expression of his character's existentially defeatist outlook on the world." (Read the full review...) 985 words, 05/12/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...pretty slim." (Read the full review...) 228 words, 06/02/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT (cg) "...begins like a luminous travelogue of the City of Lights and builds to a frequently hilarious critique of over-romanticizing the good old days." (Read the full review...) 639 words, 06/09/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...beguiling and then bedazzling... Mr. Allen offers this inspired nonsense with the casual aplomb of an absurdist; it's all so silly, and such wonderful fun." (Read the full review...) 1,178 words, 05/20/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...charming... marvelously romantic... has the inspired silliness of some of Mr. Allen's classic comic sketches..." (Read the full review...) 1,008 words, 05/20/11 David Denby, New Yorker: GOOD "...a gently rapt fable, caressed with wonderment.... The conceit is fleshed out by Paris itself. Allen's love letter to the city is earnest and gravely romantic." (Read the full review...) 929 words, 05/16/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write again: Woody Allen has made a wonderful new picture... and it's his best, most enjoyable work in years." (Read the full review...) 681 words, 05/20/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: GOOD "...a trifle in both senses of the word: a feather-light, disposable thing, and a rich dessert appealingly layered with cake, jam, and cream.... a minor Woody Allen film, but still." (Read the full review...) 758 words, 05/20/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "Allen has baked us a sweet, airy Parisian pastry with just a hint of wistful substance in the finish, and gotten this year's Cannes festivities off to a winning start." (Read the full review...) 1,043 words, 05/11/11
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: GOOD "...there's an undeniably populist appeal, light as meringue and twice as sweet, in the pic's arm's-reach sophistication." (Read the full review...) 968 words, 05/11/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "For anyone whose historical and cultural fantasies run anywhere near those that Allen toys with here, it will be a pretty constant delight." (Read the full review...) 950 words, 05/11/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write again: Woody Allen has made a wonderful new picture... and it's his best, most enjoyable work in years." (Read the full review...) 681 words, 05/20/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a mildly witty but vastly entertaining comedy, which benefits from a commanding performance by Owen Wilson in the lead." (Read the full review...) 1,175 words, 05/11/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...charming... marvelously romantic... has the inspired silliness of some of Mr. Allen's classic comic sketches..." (Read the full review...) 1,008 words, 05/20/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...beguiling and then bedazzling... Mr. Allen offers this inspired nonsense with the casual aplomb of an absurdist; it's all so silly, and such wonderful fun." (Read the full review...) 1,178 words, 05/20/11
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