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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)Movie Reviews
Romantic comedy about a young couple engaged to be married, who come to the realization during a visit to Paris that the grass is greener on the other side. Cast:Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy BatesDirector:Woody AllenRelease Date:May 20, 2011DVD Release:December 20, 2011From:Sony ClassicsRating:PG-13Length:1 hr 28 min
Midnight in Paris (2011) played to very good reviews. • Tom Long wrote in the Detroit News, "...a loving postcard to all things Eiffel... turns into a fairy tale balancing the timelessness of dissatisfaction with the beauty of human aspiration." • And Emanuel Levy wrote for Cinema 24/7, "...mildly witty but vastly entertaining... benefits from a commanding performance by Owen Wilson..." More Reviews Below...
Midnight in Paris (2011) Positive Reviews (49 Reviews, reviews below)
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."(See all of Richard Corliss's reviews...)(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... Brody hilarious..."(See all of David Germain's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 772 words, 05/19/11
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD(cg) "Woody Allen continues his grand tour of European cities... an ingratiating, tourist-oriented exercise in nostalgia for a city that doesn't exist."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(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."(See all of Peter Travers's reviews...)(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."(See all of Claudia Puig's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 449 words, 05/20/11
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)..."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(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..."(See all of Glenn Kenny's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 762 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."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(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."(See all of Lou Lumenick's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 556 words, 05/20/11
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Wilson makes everything go down easily here. Who would have guessed this actor would turn out to be an ideal conduit for Allen's nostalgic and romantic concerns?"(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(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."(See all of Rafer Guzman's reviews...)(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..."(See all of David Edelstein's reviews...)(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)..."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(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..."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(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."(See all of Peter Howell's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 665 words, 06/03/11
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a taste of magic in the Parisian night, a romantic comedy that grows more magical as it goes along. It's that rare Allen movie that is over well before we'd like it to be."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 680 words, 06/03/11
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.' "(See all of Kerry Lengel's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 506 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.... a pleasure..."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 557 words, 05/20/11
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."(See all of Shawn Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 806 words, 06/03/11
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..."(See all of Steve Persall's reviews...)(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."(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 326 words, 06/10/11
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..."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(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."(See all of Katey Rich's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 640 words, 05/18/11
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."(See all of Ed Gonzalez's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 985 words, 05/12/11
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."(See all of Curt Holman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 639 words, 06/09/11
HIGHBROW PRESS (6 Reviews)
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."(See all of Joe Morgenstern's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,178 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."(See all of David Denby's reviews...)(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."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(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... a minor Woody Allen film, but still."(See all of Dana Stevens's reviews...)(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."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,043 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."(See all of Todd McCarthy's reviews...)(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."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 681 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."(See all of Joe Morgenstern's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,178 words, 05/20/11
12.4 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Midnight in Paris (2011)'s reviews are separated by an average 12.4 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
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Coverage:Midnight in Paris (2011)'s reviews cover 99.4% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 32,457 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 662 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Midnight in Paris (2011) Coverage, Volume & Length (49 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 17.4 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Midnight in Paris (2011)'s reviews on average broke 17.4 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Midnight in Paris (2011)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Midnight in Paris (2011) (49 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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