To Rome with Love
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 22, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The New YorkerDavid DenbyJul 1, 2012
To Rome with Love is light and fast, with some of the sharpest dialogue and acting that he's put on the screen in years. [2 July 2012, p.84]
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJun 27, 2012
To Rome With Love isn't great Woody Allen. Here is a man who has made a feature every year since 1969, give or take a few, and if they cannot all be great Woody, it's churlish to complain if they're only good Woody. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 21, 2012
This is the vital city that inspired Fellini – alive and lived in. When an actor falters or a joke falls flat, Roma stays fresh and dynamic. You can't take your eyes off it. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreJun 20, 2012
The storyline involving Alec Baldwin, as an established architect on vacation in the city, is by far the most rewarding in the film, and it provides substance to what would otherwise be a strenuously whimsical endeavor. Read full review
75
MovielineStephanie ZacharekJun 20, 2012
To Rome with Love - rangy, vaguely ridiculous and trepidatiously optimistic - is Allen's film for tomorrow. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelJul 7, 2012
As cultural criticism, this commentary on life in the age of TMZ and the "Real Housewives" is hardly insightful, but it is executed to dizzying, Fellini-esque perfection, a miniature masterpiece amidst more modest amusements. Read full review
70
SlateDana StevensJun 25, 2012
At times this multiple-plot meander through the glorious labyrinth of the Eternal City can feel aimless, even lazy. But in the film's best moments, that willingness to wander works to its advantage. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 21, 2012
One of the most delightful things about To Rome With Love is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal, and how unabashedly it revels in pure silliness. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 18, 2012
I was blissed out during much of To Rome With Love, but I have to acknowledge its creepy side. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJul 4, 2012
The rest are hit-and-miss propositions with occasional flashes of wit, and a few standout performances. It's always good to see Judy Davis exchanging barbs with Allen, like when he boasts of having an IQ of 160. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 29, 2012
It's all rather sweet but instantly evanescent. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJun 20, 2012
Woody Allen has become such a beguiling travel agent that he rolls through these stories with a relaxed effervescence that is rather infectious. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJul 5, 2012
The current postcard from abroad is not great, but not grating. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 5, 2012
A charming but terribly self-indulgent trifle that's less than the sum of its many parts. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJul 5, 2012
Oh so slight and forgettable. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle SmithJun 22, 2012
In To Rome With Love, Allen approaches the leitmotif in a strange, oblique and interesting way. I fear, though, that the Italian entry in his "Let's Go: Grab Some Euro-Film Subsidies" period will be remembered as being forgettable. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 21, 2012
It's neither one of Allen's best, nor among his worst. It is also not likely to win audiences over with the passion that "Midnight in Paris" did. Read full review
60
EmpireLorien HaynesSep 10, 2012
More madness in the midday sun than Midnight In Paris. Baldwin, Cruz and Davis shine in a farce that overstretches itself into bellylaugh hits, but also some satirical misses. Read full review
60
Village VoiceChris PackhamJun 19, 2012
This Rome is luminous, and Allen, as in "Manhattan," is great at imbuing his film with a strong sense of location. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 19, 2012
It's almost cruel to criticize something so essentially lighthearted and disposable, but it must be said that a lot of these jokes feel distinctly recycled, mainly from "Broadway Danny Rose." Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeJun 15, 2012
This pleasantly diverting, none-too-strenuous arthouse excursion feels like a throwback to Allen's short-story anthologies, with the added pleasure of seeing a game cast play along. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJul 5, 2012
The film is constructed from four flimsy vignettes that are artlessly overlapped. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJul 4, 2012
Ambling, just-passable picture. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJul 4, 2012
To Rome with Love is so inviting, and most of its gaggle of characters so diverse and likable, it's doubly disappointing that Allen, who wrote and directed the movie, can't think of what to do with them. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 28, 2012
Yet here's what's strange: As awful as To Rome With Love is - and the awfulness is unmistakable - it is, as an experience, not unpleasant. You will probably see several better movies this year that you will enjoy less. It's a mess, but it's Rome. It's a mess, but it's Woody Allen. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 28, 2012
The movie strolls through its paces, sometimes amusingly, though by the end you've heard "Volare" and "Arrivederci Roma" reprised often enough to make you wish "Volare" and "Arrivederci Roma" had never been written. Read full review
50
TimeMary PolsJun 21, 2012
Other than Baldwin, Allen and Eisenberg - who is delightful - few of the performances are memorable. Page is miscast as a femme fatale, but adroit with Allen's lines, but the other women, Cruz, Pill and Gerwig hardly register. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedJun 19, 2012
To Rome with Love has moments of isolated charm, but it's only moderately entertaining, it isn't very funny, and it's entirely too long. Read full review
50
IndieWireEric KohnJun 15, 2012
Even Allen himself, appearing in front of the camera for his first role since 2005's "Scoop," looks a little lost in the mess. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 16, 2012
Baldwin has some brilliant moments as he icily dismisses Monica's posturing: his final closeup – heavy-lidded, undeceived – is fascinating and rather chilling. Read full review
40
Total FilmPhilip KempSep 1, 2012
Four trivial stories, forced laughs: don't expect much more from Allen's latest postcard from Europe. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJul 6, 2012
Never coalesces into anything memorable, much less meaningful. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 21, 2012
Much of the young cast - especially a miscast Page - make the oft-repeated mistake of saying Allen's dialogue as he might say them; the result is a lot of hyperarticulation, stammering and gesturing. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJun 15, 2012
Allen the writer-director has gone tone-deaf this time around, somehow not realizing that the nonstop prattling of the less-than-scintillating characters almost never rings true. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 7, 2012
It's either a failed experiment or a movie that was rushed through production so Allen could fulfill his one project-per-year commitment. Read full review
38
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJun 28, 2012
A giant disappointment. It's as bustling as its titular city's piazzas, but it goes nowhere. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineBill WeberJun 18, 2012
"With age comes exhaustion," according to a rueful line late in the film, and it serves as a fitting diagnosis for Woody Allen's latest fallen souffle set in a European cultural capital. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 21, 2012
For better or worse, Woody Allen turns out a movie every year. Last year's "Midnight in Paris" was better than better; that is to say, sublime. To Rome With Love is worse than worse, as inert as its predecessor was inspired. Read full review
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