My Blueberry Nights Reviews

The ensemble drama has some modest charms, which includes a surprising, old-fashioned sweetness and interpretation of romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

... dreamy, woozy, elliptical and gorgeously infused with orange-red light and smeary Matisse blues. It's visually beautiful and its open-ended narrative is loose and suggestive

Full Review | Original Score: 82/100

It's sweet and mostly satisfying, like a silky dessert at the end of a relaxed meal.

Full Review | Original Score: B

[A] flaky disaster.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The casting problem starts with the movie's lead, Norah Jones.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

(Norah) Jones doesn't merely hold her own in a pouty screen debut of note; she looks comfortable and purrs with the confidence of someone who belongs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's not the pie that is meant to make this watchable, it is Wai's greatest gift, observing people, little slices of life in New York, Memphis or Nevada. Unfortunately in this case, those slices don't add up to a meal, or even dessert.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

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Less 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.

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...less than the sum of its parts, [but] some of those parts are wonderful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A moody, beautiful romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's a stylish and sweet film with moments of affecting brilliance that counterbalance its flaws.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Fans of Chinese director Wong Kar Wai's dreamy, romantic films will find My Blueberry Nights a luscious treat, although newcomers to his world of sensuous longing will no doubt wonder what all the fuss is about.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The bad news about My Blueberry Nights is that it feels like an exaggeration to call it an actual movie.

| Original Score: 2/4

My Blueberry Nights can be sexy as hell, but for the first time in a Wong film, I felt duped for being so easily seduced.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Like the pies that give the film its title, My Blueberry Nights is really just a dessert, something sweet and mostly insubstantial.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

My Blueberry Nights captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

As someone who has an aversion to most contemporary romantic movies, Wong is a filmmaker whose lush romanticism makes me swoon.

Only in flashes does Wong Kar-Wai let you forget about the relentless, meticulous beauty long enough to lose yourself inside it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Wong Kar Wai's strange pastry-filled reverie My Blueberry Nights is not for those who like movies in which things happen; rather, it's for those in a mood to float, sometimes deliciously.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4