2 Days in New York
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: August 10, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
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Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 16, 2012
It's extremely funny, one of the funniest films of 2012, with a particularly winning style - far-fetched, extreme and nonstop. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSep 20, 2012
A manic, lithesome thing, 2 Days in New York flexes between broad comedy and a beautifully observed portrait of family life – especially life after death. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 16, 2012
Ridiculously funny, ridiculously charming. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 15, 2012
What impresses me more is that she (Delpy) has a lighthearted way about her and takes chances in comedies like this. It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAug 8, 2012
It's a pleasure to meet up again with Marion, the distractible, acerbic, New York-based French photographer played once more by Julie Delpy in 2 Days in New York. This bouncy hand-knitted comedy of cross-cultural relationships, also directed and co-written by Delpy, makes a jaunty sequel to "2 Days in Paris." Read full review
80
EmpireLiz BeardsworthJul 20, 2012
Full of wit, intelligence and flair, once more Delpy has created a delightfully irresistible sort-of-romantic comedy. Read full review
80
The GuardianSteve RoseJul 20, 2012
We've rarely seen comedy this smart since Woody Allen and Seinfeld left New York. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn LevyAug 23, 2012
Slight but winning. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnAug 9, 2012
Even when it stumbles, however, 2 Days in New York retains an airy vibe, reflecting its dogged intention to charm its viewers. But seeing as "2 Days in Paris" never felt especially irksome, this affable sequel deserves the same insouciant shrug. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianAug 5, 2012
It keeps the entrances, exits, and misunderstandings rolling while rooting the action in emotions and character traits that are only slightly exaggerated for comic effect. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 10, 2012
Delpy may be starting to channel Woody Allen's directorial skills, but Rock has fully appropriated the Woodman's barbed comic anger. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJul 20, 2012
French farce is alive and reasonably well in 2 Days in New York, a madcap inter-family romp that deftly keeps many comic balls in the air for a good hour, before dropping some in the final stretch. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 16, 2012
Chatty, neurotic, maddeningly messy, often very funny, "New York" spins in a lunatic orbit of its own. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 16, 2012
The comedy works some of the time; the pathos, more so. There's an undertow of grief in 2 Days in New York relating to the passing of Marion's (and Delpy's) mother, who died in 2009. Read full review
63
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeAug 10, 2012
Delpy's good at keeping Marion's complaints sharp and funny, rather than wan and whiny. Even so, the movie's a bumpy ride as her good farcical instincts vie with the yen for cheap laughs. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 9, 2012
Delpy is boundlessly appealing. And Rock is acerbic fun, notably in the imaginary debates he stages with Obama. But the frenzied cross-cultural gags take the piss out of the real subject: how blood ties can turn love into a battlefield. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 6, 2012
2 Days in New York splits its time between being a quirky comedy and a quasi-serious drama. Comparisons with Woody Allen may be inevitable, in part because of the setting, although none of the characters in this film are neurotic enough to match vintage Allen. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineDavid EhrlichAug 7, 2012
It isn't a problem that 2 Days in New York is implausibly stuffed with incident for a movie that transpires over the course of just 48 hours, the trouble lies in how much time it still manages to waste. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithJul 20, 2012
2 Days is a sparky, crowd-cheering gem buoyed by Julie Delpy's smart writing and Adam Goldberg's tart whining. Less swoony than Linklater's "Before Sunrise/Sunset," but Delpy nails the relationship humour. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 9, 2012
The film, which is about a chaotic 48 hours in Marion's life, succumbs to the chaos it depicts, and so undermines its best intentions. It is, all in all, a likable mess. Read full review
50
TimeMary PolsAug 9, 2012
This cutesy film is overwhelmed by a sense of forced farce. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick PinkertonAug 7, 2012
Delpy, of course, finds her father charming because he is her father, misses her mother for the same reason, and treasures her neuroses because they are her own. What viewers miss is anything inviting us to feel the same way. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonAug 8, 2012
Delpy's work lacks Allen's wry humor and eye-rolling, philosophical acceptance of those characters and their quirks. Her stable of sniping couples and relatives are openly hateful in ways that defy comedy. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearAug 7, 2012
Both Rock and Delpy the actor invest so much in their respectively harried, recognizably human urbanites that you wonder why Delpy the director keeps undermining things by engaging in easy Gallic caricatures and generically Gotham-ming it up at every opportunity. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangJul 20, 2012
The French are smelly, vulgar, racist and oversexed, or so it would seem based on 2 Days in New York, a scattershot culture-clash comedy that goes down like yesterday's foie gras. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenAug 10, 2012
2 Days in New York plays like 2 years in Attica. You don't watch this movie so much as serve it out, a light comedy doled out as a heavy sentence. Read full review
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