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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a pleasant movie, even-tempered..." (Read the full review...) 600 words, 11/11/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Lighter than a meringue and as insubstantial... designed for the gentle laughter it easily earns." (Read the full review...) 705 words, 10/07/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "The actors are all fun to watch, but there's an uncomfortably self-satisfied air lingering around this tale of a wealthy, middle-aged man who finds himself through a gorgeous, and grateful, young woman." (Read the full review...) 173 words, 10/07/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "The French have a knack for it. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces for forever, and seeing 'The Women on the 6th Floor' makes you hope they'll never stop." (Read the full review...) 620 words, 10/07/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "...has a few things going for it -- a winning performance by [Fabrice] Luchini and a small role by Pedro Almodóvar favorite Carmen Maura. But these talented folks can't compensate for a plot that strains credulity and lacks badly needed social bite." (Read the full review...) 329 words, 10/07/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: POOR (cg) "...perhaps it's time we stopped broad-brushing the French as enlightened intellectuals. They're also capable of producing blinkered, backward-looking comedies like this, which reeks of sexism, classism & ethnic stereotyping but thinks it's all light, fizzy fun." (Read the full review...) 301 words, 10/07/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a pleasant movie, even-tempered..." (Read the full review...) 600 words, 11/11/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...[offers an] unnecessary rehashing of the earthy virtues of low-paid laborers versus the stiffness of the bourgeoisie." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 10/05/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a simple enjoyment that blends two cultures in a delicious little dish." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 10/21/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...another social comedy about a stuffy, middle-class protagonist awakening to the oppression of the poor, along with their home-cooking, spontaneity and zest for life." (Read the full review...) 706 words, 10/21/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "I can live with the head of the household being hot for the maid - especially as she's turning his values system upside down. But why make her half his age, especially when the other five women on the sixth floor are more his vintage?" (Read the full review...) 212 words, 10/20/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...about two individuals from different rungs of the social ladder who try to meet in the middle. But it's also, to a poignant and tantalizing degree, about how that gap can never entirely be bridged." (Read the full review...) 489 words, 11/11/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a well-crafted, charming French variant on 'The Help'.... doesn't blaze adventurous new trails, but it dramatizes the stories of those underappreciated servants with an engaging mix of romance, droll humor and upstairs-downstairs social consciousness." (Read the full review...) 345 words, 12/02/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: POOR (cg) "...delicate and sensitive and utter bollocks - a bourgeois wet dream made to soothe the souls and stir the loins of powerful men in midlife crisis. But some of us wish we could see this movie told from the maids' point of view." (Read the full review...) 438 words, 10/14/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD (cg) "...nothing more than a slight comedy, with a few smiles and some nice shots of French households and Spanish cuisine (I want some of that paella right now). But its stars give it a great deal of charm." (Read the full review...) 420 words, 10/07/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...period detail grounds [the film] and gives us an interesting look into class as it existed in France some 45 years ago." (Read the full review...) 329 words, 10/21/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "A sweet yet occasionally heavy-handed comedy about class relations in 1962 Paris... a pleasant journey..." (Read the full review...) 215 words, 11/25/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) " 'The Women on the 6th Floor' shouldn't work, but this efficient flick whisks away our cynicism." (Read the full review...) 330 words, 11/04/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "...frothy to a fault." (Read the full review...) 341 words, 11/04/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...[offers an] unnecessary rehashing of the earthy virtues of low-paid laborers versus the stiffness of the bourgeoisie." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 10/05/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "...[offers] easygoing political correctness, staid platitudes, saucy comedy, and a romance between a middle-aged bourgeois and a life-affirming babe 30 years his junior." (Read the full review...) 143 words, 06/28/11 Alison Willmore, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...never confronts the uncomfortable power dynamics underlying its arc of self-discovery, and never digs deeper than its broad generalizations about being poor but happy vs. rich but soulless." (Read the full review...) 409 words, 10/06/11 Kalvin Henely, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...plays everything safe, keeping all its edges rounded and its lips sealed in territory ripe for sociopolitical commentary..." (Read the full review...) 448 words, 10/05/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "I can live with the head of the household being hot for the maid - especially as she's turning his values system upside down. But why make her half his age, especially when the other five women on the sixth floor are more his vintage?" (Read the full review...) 212 words, 10/20/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "In some ways [the movie] is too French to travel well. At this distance -- not just from France but from the France of the '60s -- the film's social criticism seems quaint..." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 10/07/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Lighter than a meringue and as insubstantial... designed for the gentle laughter it easily earns." (Read the full review...) 705 words, 10/07/11 Mark Jenkins, NPR: GOOD "...sharply written.... flashes of wit and insight lift 'The Women on the 6th Floor' several levels above its sitcom-y plot." (Read the full review...) 516 words, 10/06/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "The French have a knack for it. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces for forever, and seeing 'The Women on the 6th Floor' makes you hope they'll never stop." (Read the full review...) 620 words, 10/07/11
Boyd Van Hoeij, Daily Variety: GOOD "Breezy... [a] '60s-set tale of an uptight, unhappily married Paris stockbroker, who rediscovers his joie de vivre after he gets to know the raucous Spanish maids who live upstairs..." (Read the full review...) 682 words, 02/15/11 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...[a] sentimental Gallic version of 'Upstairs, Downstairs'... built for laughs so any historical or sociopolitical observations are purely incidental." (Read the full review...) 738 words, 04/12/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "The French have a knack for it. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces for forever, and seeing 'The Women on the 6th Floor' makes you hope they'll never stop." (Read the full review...) 620 words, 10/07/11 Michael T. Dennis, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "It would be easy to label 'The Women on the 6th Floor' a comedy of manners, but the satire is too light and inoffensive. Instead it's about a character confronting his own humanity, and realizing how close he has come to losing it." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 09/23/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Lighter than a meringue and as insubstantial... designed for the gentle laughter it easily earns." (Read the full review...) 705 words, 10/07/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "In some ways [the movie] is too French to travel well. At this distance -- not just from France but from the France of the '60s -- the film's social criticism seems quaint..." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 10/07/11
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