Barefoot in the Park
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 25, 1967 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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80
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
A thoroughly entertaining comedy delight about young marriage. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Redford and the Oscar-nominated Natwick, fresh from their Broadway triumph in the play, perform with the ease familiarity brings, and Fonda and Boyer also display the appropriate lightness of touch. Read full review
70
TimeStaff (Not Credited)
Barefoot in the Park is one of the few plays to be reincarnated on-screen while playing on the Broadway stage. Happily, it loses little in transition. Read full review
70
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Sprightly dialogue, nice performances. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Nothing special, but it's a decent example of a vanished genre—the small character comedy. Read full review
60
The New YorkerPauline Kael
Almost amusing in a harmlessly, pleasantly stupid way.
40
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
Gene Saks, directing his first movie, has paced it so unevenly and allowed such glaring mismatches of scenic backgrounds and even of gag sequences that it looks as though his costly picture was made by people who didn't know their way around. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAndrew Sarris
Gene Saks directs his first film so clumsily that he even muffs Mike Nichol’s exploitation of the climbing the stairs gag that kept Neil Simon’s feeble farce running for 79 years on Broadway. Read full review
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