New York, I Love You
Vivendi Entertainment | Release Date: October 16, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Oddly, the filmmaker best known for his Valentines to New York, Woody Allen, is not participant. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
These tales are as highly designed as fashion layouts. But they're as relaxing to thumb through as those NYT Magazine trend pieces. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Look at the cast and credits to form an idea of the directors and actors at work here. By its nature, New York, I Love You can't add up. It remains the sum of its parts. If one isn't working for you, wait a few minutes, here comes another one. New Yorkers, I love you. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The film is an omnibus ride through Brighton Beach, Central Park, the West Village, and Tribeca. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
Gamely tries to capture a vast, twinkling cityscape with not one love story - but 11 little ones, a few of them overlapping. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
All of the participating directors – save Balsmeyer and actor Natalie Portman – are known for features. So part of the interest is seeing how the short form puts their strengths, weaknesses, thematic interests or styles into sharp focus. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterErica Abeel
Most of these linked "shorts" succeed remarkably in nailing the serendipitous flavor of love, New York-style. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The project is lush and seductive as a whole, though some segments are especially vibrant. Read full review
70
Washington PostPhilip Kennicott
A light but enjoyable souffle of erotic vignettes. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Provides some compensatory satisfactions, thanks mostly to the actors, as they make the most of a series of pencil sketches. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
If you're not a stickler for consistency, this is an effective pastiche and tribute to one of the world's most enticing cities. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
Neither a comprehensive guide nor consistently good, but because the theme is romance, most of these small bites of the Big Apple are easy to digest. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
Where "Paris" was the ingénue, fresh-faced and surprising, "New York" needed to come in with the confidence of a more practiced hand, and it never quite manages that. Better to think of it as a day trip rather than an actual film, just a brief, mostly delightful excursion into the city. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichelle Orange
As with its predecessor, "Paris je t'aime," there are hits and misses. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The result, as is always the case with short story collections, is a mixed bag, although unlike "Paris Je T'Aime," the duds outnumber the winners this time. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
New York, I Love You wants us to know that the city is a sexy, romantic, thrillingly random place where anything can go down. Sadly, two of those things are your eyelids. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubSam Adams
The segments don’t form anything like a coherent whole, but they aren’t distinctive enough to clash meaningfully with each other, either. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Doesn't evoke New York and its vignettes are trite – with one exception, a touching sequence directed by Mira Nair with Natalie Portman as a Hasidic bride and Irrfan Khan as a Jain diamond merchant. Read full review
40
VarietyJay Weissberg
The results are, well, formulaic, hobbled by weak dialogue and absent any sense of texture. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
Cutesy and generic, New York, I Love You is almost colossally inept at capturing five-boroughs flavor. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
What's remarkable here is the consistency of the mediocrity. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The pieces of New York, I Love You make up a parallel city that no one would want to live in, much less visit. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Anyone who actually adores New York is unlikely to appreciate this disappointingly bland collection of shorts, which might as well have been called "Madrid, Te Amo" or "Cincinnati, You're the Best." Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Short to short, it’s a Russian roulette. Read full review
25
NPRScott Tobias
Despite Benhiby's best efforts to create one from many, the only thing the roughly 10-minute segments in New York, I Love You have in common are a general air of indifference. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
When New York, I Love You was previewed in Toronto a year ago, there were two additional segments that have since been cut. So you'll have to wait for the DVD to see just how bad Scarlett Johansson's directing debut is. Read full review
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