In My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-wai’s first American-set, English-language film -- and his first feature shot on video -- the Hong Kong filmmaker has achieved a ravishing, triple triumph.
1 Comment
04/02/08
My Blueberry Nights (2008)
49
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:56
Rotten:59
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Though well filmed, My Blueberry Nights is a mixed bag of dedicated performers working with thin material.
Theatrical Release:Apr 4, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $724,907
Synopsis: With his first English-language film, beloved Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's touch loses none of the seductive luster and magic that made his Chinese films so popular. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS... [More]
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Natalie Portman
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Get This Movie
Rent DVD
Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.
Buy DVD
Reviews for My Blueberry Nights
The story had promise but it ends up being half baked by a director who wants to show off that he went to film school.
06/08/08
My Blueberry Nights should have played like a memory, but its hard-living, luckless losers are too beautiful to be believed.
04/04/08
Top CriticLess sensuous than the pie à la mode, more nuanced than the doors opening and closing, cutting the cards might not change any odds, but it does offer an illusion of choice.
04/30/08
Far from a disaster, but it does feel like a footnote. It’s difficult to see why the great director and very talented performers worked so hard to deliver such thin material.
02/22/08
Ill judged and swooning take on relationships and the US.
02/22/08
Narratives and places are secondary to the dreamy, bitter-sweet tone Wong is so keen to evoke, and with which, like a scent one might spray on too liberally, he saturates every scene.
02/22/08
A symphony worth of bum notes.
02/22/08
Click to read the article
10/18/08
In My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-wai and his cinematographer, Darius Khondji, make America look so pretty that you may have trouble recognizing it.
04/04/08
Top CriticOrnamental details like cigarette smoking and messy handwriting keep the settings tight and constrictive. Still, there's awkward shakiness that's fortified with interjections of high-volume, often-distracting soundtrack.
04/17/08
But it's not the English that seems to trip up the writer-director; it's the language. Wong's script, co-written with Lawrence Block, tosses out the filmmaker's genius for non-verbal characterization and replaces it with talk, talk, talk.
05/01/08
Wai fills the void with pointless slow-mo shots while pushing his real talent to commit over-acting hara-kiri with syrupy drawls and nonsense perspectives
04/11/08
The longer this slice of fanciful blueberry-pie Americana sits with me, the better I like it.
05/17/07
Top CriticFortunately, Mr. Wong has made the perilous journey into a new language without sacrificing his artistic soul and very personal visual style.
04/02/08
Top CriticAs someone who has an aversion to most contemporary romantic movies, Wong is a filmmaker whose lush romanticism makes me swoon.
04/18/08
Wong Kar Wai's dreamy film boasts strong performances but ultimately feels more like a wistful character study than a heartfelt romance.
04/04/08
Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai has made some of the smartest, most moving and tactilely gorgeous tales of romantic dislocation ever put on film. His first American movie, My Blueberry Nights, is not one of those.
04/04/08
Could it be that the director feels less certain he gets his message across in a language that is not his? Voice overs from several characters are used to make explicit what should ideally have been inferred from what transpires on screen.
05/19/07
My Blueberry Nights is like a short film that goes on for too long. It is a flimsy, if inoffensive, addition to Wong Kar Wai's canon, an insignificant diversion at best.
04/04/08
Latest News for My Blueberry Nights
June 30, 2008:
RT on DVD: Tarantino on Inglorious Bastards DVD, Godfather Trilogy Restored
This week in DVD news, Francis Ford Coppola brings you the Godfather trilogy (again), Quentin Tarantino is super excited about the original Inglorious Bastards, and Hancock may... More...
June 28, 2008:
The movie is all over the map in more than just its cross-country itinerary, and these stars are all far too good looking to imagine them as unrequited lovers and perpetual losers. But that blueberry pie sure looks awfully good. 
More...
April 03, 2008:
Critics Consensus: Leatherheads Has its Ups and Downs; Nim's Island is Stranded; Guess The Ruins' Tomatometer!
This week at the movies, we've got pigskin pratfalls (Leatherheads, starring George Clooney and Renée Zellweger), isle imagination (Nim's Island, starring Jodie Foster and... More...
March 25, 2008:
Trailer & Poster review
More...
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
MSN's Year in Review
Take a look at MSN's choices for the Top 10 films of 2009.
40 Best Films of the 2000s
Last week, Moviefone offered us their worst films of the 2000s. Now see their 40 best!
Tarantino's Characters
Hollywood.com explores why QT's characters resonate so well with audiences.
Top 10 Movies of 2009
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Top 20 of the Decade
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
IGN RSS Feeds