Midnight in Paris Reviews
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Souffle light and long on charm, one of Allen's wittiest and certainly his most literary
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| Original Score: 3/4
Examiner.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
NECN
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.
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| Original Score: A-
Cinemania
Nostalgic fluff (for all its faux rejection thereof), but it's my brand of fluff
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| Original Score: 74/100
Flick Filosopher
[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.
TheMovieReport.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Talk
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.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Metropolis
An accomplished film that's as entertaining as it is deliciously offbeat.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Goatdog's Movies
Watchable, and on a certain level, it's quite enjoyable.
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| Original Score: 3/5
MSN.com
[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.
Cinema Crazed
A surprise treat from Woody Allen who has spent too much energy selling his films to mainstream audiences...
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The Standard
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Moviedex
Filled with light-hearted fancy and a dazzling cast, Woody Allen's latest film is a magical stroll through a magnificent city
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| Original Score: 4/5
Urban Cinefile
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
Urban Cinefile
The magic of Paris and the mystique of an era gone-by are the stars of Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen's best film for years
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
So light and breezy you might not recognize this Paris postcard comes by way of the ever-relevant Woody Allen, who mixes time travel and nostalgia to delightful effect...
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| Original Score: A-
FILMINK (Australia)
Midnight In Paris is clever, watchable, mildly entertaining and quite amusing. Unfortunately -- after its initial gimmick -- it's also pretty predictable, and amounts to a lot less than the sum of its parts.
At the Movies (Australia)
The most acceptable Woody Allen film in a long time.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
At the Movies (Australia)
This combination of whimsy and romance is, for me, much more successful than Allen's previous European city film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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| Original Score: 4/5
