Paris Can Wait
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: May 12, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The Film StageJordan RuimyJan 16, 2017
One of the sexiest and most joyful road movies in some time. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshMay 11, 2017
The refreshing element is that the story resists normative fantasies of sex or romance — in Paris Can Wait, Coppola focuses on the relationship to the self. Read full review
75
IndieWireJude DryMay 18, 2017
Like a fine conversation, which her solid script mostly delivers, Coppola keeps the tension in the air like a lightly bouncing ball. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 11, 2017
If you’re longing for a delicious romantic romp to take your mind off the world going to hell in hand basket, Paris Can Wait is it. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedMay 11, 2017
Sometimes beauty and charm are enough to turn a middling movie into pure ambrosia. Diane Lane has plenty of both, and she uses them wisely in Paris Can Wait, elevating an otherwise mild and inconsequential film to unexpected heights of enchantment. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJan 16, 2017
As it is for the two characters for two days, it’s an escape from real life, from anything consequential, a chance to delight in the pleasures that humans can take from what grows in the earth and from an amiable companion’s company. Read full review
70
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganJan 16, 2017
There are touching moments...that could only have come from real life, and the film is all the better for them. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMay 11, 2017
An airy, half-baked meringue of a movie, Paris Can Wait is the kind of film that leaves you famished — not just for la belle vie on screen but for the stronger sustenance of plot and character. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJun 1, 2017
Paris Can Wait isn’t exactly a feast, but it’s a snack worth having. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaMay 12, 2017
Lane, still an incandescent knockout at 52, continues to pull off expressing sensuality and sexiness better than most actresses of any age. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 5, 2017
Movies, life and love, Jacques says, “are like souffles — all about timing.” And Coppola’s is just…off. Paris Can Wait could have been a perfectly adorable wish-fulfillment fantasy for an over-40 audience. She just needed to wait until landing a more engaging leading man. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Johanna SchnellerJun 1, 2017
There’s one big problem: Anne doesn’t drive her own journey. She spends scene after scene passively letting Jacques tell her what to do, eat and think. And there’s no detouring around that. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 24, 2017
Paris Can Wait is Coppola’s feature solo writing-directing debut, filmed in her 80th year. It would be cheering to report that it’s a great movie, but you can’t have everything. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 18, 2017
The presentation is gorgeous. The actual meal is nothing but empty calories. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 18, 2017
Paris Can Wait is a modest, genteel piece of cinematic escapism, a silky testament to sensuality as impeccably tasteful as it is utterly undemanding. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMay 18, 2017
Lane is an endearing performer, but she needs something, anything, to work with. Here, she's getting by on sheer likability. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSam C. MacMay 7, 2017
The film leaves the lasting impression of a story that takes place in its own elitist and hermetically sealed world. Read full review
48
TheWrapClaudia PuigMay 11, 2017
The minimal character development will frustrate filmgoers seeking substance, as will Coppola’s stilted dialogue. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisMay 31, 2017
Paris Can Wait may be a film à clef of sorts – there’s a hint of the autobiographical in it, the suggestion of something experienced – but even that angle doesn’t make the movie terribly appetizing. What it needs is a little salt. Read full review
40
VoxAlissa WilkinsonMay 24, 2017
Unfortunately, it’s not a great film. But it’s an enjoyable one, if you like fine wine, beautiful countrysides, and a little frisson of flirtation. Read full review
40
Village VoiceApril WolfeMay 11, 2017
Imagine The Trip meets Lost in Translation (Coppola’s daughter Sophia’s debut), but with stale dialogue and neither much romance nor comedy Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMay 9, 2017
As the movie pulls over to look at museum fabrics in vain search of a groove, it turns the audience into its impatient child, threatening to start kicking the back of the car seat any minute now. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMay 11, 2017
By the time the final meal is devoured, you’ll be wanting nothing so much as an antacid. Read full review
30
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 16, 2017
The trouble with Paris Can Wait — apart from the sheer agony of being trapped with two insufferable characters as they sample gorgeously photographed food and wine that we can’t taste — is the way the movie seems so willing to let its leading lady be defined by her husband’s job. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 17, 2017
A poorly acted, colossal bore of a film that strikes wrong notes from beginning to end. Read full review
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