Two for the Road
Twentieth Century Fox Film Company | Release Date: April 27, 1967 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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100
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Arguably Stanley Donen's masterpiece, and undoubtedly one of the most stylistically influential films of the 60s. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A Hollywood-style romance between beautiful people, and an honest story about recognizable human beings. Read full review
100
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Certainly one of the very best films in each of Donen and Hepburn's careers, this devastatingly lovely remnant of Hollywood's anything-goes Sixties (with a script by Frederic Raphael) tells the story of a marriage by showing a couple over the course of successive trips to the south of France. Read full review
88
USA TodayMike Clark
Donen (previously Hepburn's director in Funny Face and Charade) gets everything out of a brainstorm romantic teaming that didn't - and doesn't - spring automatically to mind. [05 Nov 1993, p.3D]
83
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The film's surface is made up of familiar '60s romantic-comedy elements, from Hepburn's haute wardrobe to the Henry Mancini score to the breezy interaction between the stars. They banter, bicker, and make up with witty repartee. It's what movie love is supposed to look like, which makes it all the more heartbreaking to know that it's destined to sour. Read full review
80
CineVueCraig Williams
The work bears the burden of Classical Hollywood, making it not only a film about two people decoupling, but a striking example of forms in combat, struggling for a dominant voice. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Donen's direction here is a trifle trendy and frantic, with sometimes jarring results. Read full review
63
LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen
As for the two leads, they have charm to spare, and it’s startling to see Hepburn bring bitterness to bear on her trademark wit, but the relationship and all its foibles still feel prescribed by the overall structure, not borne of real life. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
There are some precious moments of romantic charm in this bitter account of domestic discord amid surroundings that should inspire nothing but delight. And so one must seize upon them for the entertainment that is to be had, and endure the tedium of much of the picture. Read full review
60
EmpirePhil de Semlyen
Sharply scripted with a melancholic charm. Read full review
60
The New RepublicPauline Kael
Two for the Road is a good try; it's often pretty and sometimes funny; one wishes it well, one wishes it were better. Read full review
60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Arid, crowd-pleasing stuff, in which the soul-searchings take place very conveniently on annual holidays in France and in a variety of luxuriously furnished interiors. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
As far as producer, director, femme lead and screenwriter are concerned, this attempt to visually analyze the bits and pieces that go into making a marriage, and then making it work, is successful. If it drags a bit here and there, blame it on the stodgy performance of actor Albert Finney who is unable to convey the lightness, gaiety and romanticism needed. Read full review
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