Midnight in Paris (2011)

All Critics (203) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (190) | Rotten (14) | DVD (6)

It's fun and it's most welcome.

October 5, 2011 Full Review

Dave Calhoun

Time Out

Top Critic

Midnight in Paris is a loving embrace of the city, of art and of life itself.

June 10, 2011 Full Review | Comments (7)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Our hero has found his groove among the Lost Generation and, for us, there's some amusement to be had in sharing Gil's thrills -- it's like stepping into a Classic Comics version of A Moveable Feast.

June 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Midnight in Paris is charming and clever, at times wickedly astute and hopeful.

June 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Woody Allen attracts promising players and does nothing with them.

June 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (34)

David Thomson

The New Republic

Top Critic

There is breezy comedy to be made of a YouTube-age writer meeting the icons and idols of a bygone, classical era, but Allen goes deeper, expanding on his time-travel device to make unexpected and unexpectedly generous observations.

June 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Gary Thompson

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Souffle light and long on charm, one of Allen's wittiest and certainly his most literary

January 8, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

The blend of charm, magic, wit, and characterization come together to make this an engaging and intellectually stimulating experience. This is a great film and one of the best of the year thus far.

September 20, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

The fact that Allen never explains how Bender bends time is a wise choice, there's no bogging down of the narrative which allows the flick to keep skipping along at a effervescent pace.

August 27, 2012 Full Review

Erick Weber

NECN

Nostalgic fluff (for all its faux rejection thereof), but it's my brand of fluff

July 21, 2012 Full Review

Dan Jardine

Cinemania

[A] work of genius... [B]ecomes the butt of its own gentle joke... one that wraps up a paralyzing self-awareness in a redemptive self-deprecation to, finally and splendidly, laugh with great good humor at itself.

February 15, 2012 Full Review

MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

As on-screen Allen stand-ins go, Wilson is definitely one of the more effective ones, recognizably channelling those Allen neuroses within his own established persona and distinct comic rhythms.

February 7, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Woody Allen seemed to have lost his fizz as a filmmaker of late - and then he uncorked the sparkling Midnight in Paris, a comic fantasy with all the effervescence of vintage champagne.

February 3, 2012 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Woody Allen's comedy Midnight in Paris is a superior late-period work precisely because it appears that age and wisdom have finally allowed him to discover that his romantic streak can acknowledge his realist/cynical side without succumbing to it.

January 3, 2012 Full Review

Perry Seibert

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Fable-like, if not exactly fabulous, Midnight in Paris gets shoved onto shelves in a barebones edition from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

January 3, 2012 Full Review

Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

An accomplished film that's as entertaining as it is deliciously offbeat.

December 29, 2011 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Watchable, and on a certain level, it's quite enjoyable.

December 29, 2011 Full Review

Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Goatdog's Movies

[Woody] Allen brings his fantasy to life with such affection and joy that he transports us into his dream come true as a shared fantasy.

December 22, 2011 Full Review

Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

A surprise treat from Woody Allen who has spent too much energy selling his films to mainstream audiences...

November 30, 2011 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

einai apo aytes tis tainies poy se xaideyoyne epibrabeytika sto kefali, h anamesa sta mpoytia, giati exeis akoysta ton Cole Porter kai ton F. Scott Fitzgerald

November 20, 2011 Full Review | Comments (6)

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

Allen wants you to love Paris as much as Gil does and wants to show you the magic, the romance and the spark the city holds for him.

November 17, 2011 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Filled with light-hearted fancy and a dazzling cast, Woody Allen's latest film is a magical stroll through a magnificent city

October 24, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Tom Clift

Moviedex

Although the film suggests that we should enjoy the present for all it's worth, we have a great time enjoying this brief episode in a literate and beauty-filled past

October 22, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

• 1. Ernest: I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino-hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave... It is because they make love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds... until it returns, as it does, to all men... and then you must make really good love again.
  – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
• 1. Paul: Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
  – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
• 1. Gil: Adriana, if you stay here though, and this becomes your present then pretty soon you'll start imagining another time was really your... You know, was really the golden time. Yeah, that's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life's a little unsatisfying.
  – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
• 1. Gert: The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
  – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
• 1. Gil: That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life's a little unsatisfying.
  – Submitted by justin j (9 months ago)
• 1. Ernest: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
  – Submitted by Chad E (10 months ago)