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New York, I Love You

New York, I Love You (2008)

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 93
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 59

Like many anthologies, New York, I Love You has problems of consistency, but it isn't without its moments.

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 12

Like many anthologies, New York, I Love You has problems of consistency, but it isn't without its moments.

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Average Rating: 2.9/5
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Some of the world's most-respected directors align forces to pay tribute to the city of the New York in this unconventional omnibus sister film to 2006's Paris, Je T'Aime. Broken into short segments, New York, I Love You is comprised of ten films, most choosing to take a down-to-earth approach to the stories of the countless lives lived in the city on a given day. The segments are as follows, chronologically: Segment 1 -- Directed by Jiang Wen; written by Hu Hong and Meng Yao; starring Hayden

R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Drama, Comedy

,

Feb 2, 2010

$1.6M

Vivendi Entertainment

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Critic Reviews for New York, I Love You

All Critics (96) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (60) | DVD (10)

While many of the segments amuse, and rarely wear out their welcome (the average running time is eight minutes apiece), it rapidly becomes apparent that each of them has some kind of twist, like an O Henry short story.

November 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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It's a bit too arty, and a bit too cute, but it charms and cajoles with the pluck of a native New Yorker.

October 30, 2009 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Amy Biancolli
San Francisco Chronicle
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The project is lush and seductive as a whole, though some segments are especially vibrant.

October 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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The film only feels like two or three different sort of approaches are represented. They don't really feel like widely different attacks on the material.

October 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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The characters are all more or less useless, inhabiting the frivolous tippy-top of Maslow's pyramid of needs, with little sense that there's anyone essential at the bottom. It's fun, but decadent.

October 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment (1)
Philip Kennicott
Washington Post
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Where's the ethnic diversity? The cultural overflow? The dirt, the chaos, the cramped quarters, the people who look like us, rather than movie stars?

October 16, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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How easily you'll weather the film depends on your taste for poetic, obtuse cinema, often without too much of a rhyme or reason.

February 10, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment
Shaun Munro
What Culture Source: What Culture

A variety of wry, sentimental, mildly erotic tales that come over as pieces O Henry might have submitted to Playboy.

February 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Philip French
Guardian [UK]

The cinematography and editing is superb and makes up for any shortfalls with some of the stories, but the film's obvious draw will be its stellar ensemble cast.

February 6, 2011 Full Review Source: Real.com | Comment
Lisa Giles-Keddie
Real.com Source: Real.com

If you've got a heart of treacle, an attention span of 15 minutes and can't afford the air fare then there are worse ways to spend a couple of hours.

February 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Catherine Shoard
Guardian [UK]

Let's just stay friends.

February 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Little White Lies | Comment
Adam Woodward
Little White Lies

This sequel to the superior Paris Je T'Aime is pleasant but inconsequential.

February 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Comment
David Gritten
Daily Telegraph

Is New York I Love You meant to be a love-letter to the Big Apple? As far as I could tell, it was a seething satire about the city's sleazy, vapid, self-involved stereotypes.

October 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix | Comment
Simon Miraudo
Quickflix Source: Quickflix

In truth, alas, it's the film itself that's short of ideas.

October 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Neil Smith
Total Film

As with Paris, Je T'Aime (it's from the same producer, Emmanuel Benbihy), the sheer diversity of this portmanteau movie is both a curse and a blessing.

October 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Radio Times | Comment
John Ferguson
Radio Times

As with Paris, Je T'Aime, New York, I Love You works as both romance film and seductive travelogue, but some will find its 'arty' posturing more maddening than magical.

October 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Liz Beardsworth
Empire Magazine

Even though each segment is rather wonderful in its own way, as a whole this feels like a side of New York that we've perhaps already seen on screen.

July 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Director-ensemble films are never fantastic but New York, I Love You does have a few moments worth savouring.

May 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Autopsy | Comment
Thomas Caldwell
Cinema Autopsy

If nothing else, it brilliantly captures the moods and tempo of New York: its vibrant pulse, its energy, its ethnic diversity, its clamorous excitement.

May 17, 2010 Full Review Source: The Australian | Comment
Evan Williams
The Australian

How can so many good directors -- Fatih Akin and Sheker Kapur among them -- miscalculate here?

May 14, 2010 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment
Julie Rigg
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
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Such a great cast, such a waste. "New York, I love You" is a series of short stories about different people in New York, and their relationships. So many stories are meshed together that you really don't care for most of the characters or their situations. I hoped this was going to be a newer "Love Actually."

June 9, 2011
Everett Johnson
Everett Johnson

Super Reviewer

I am shocked at all the bad reviews I have read regarding this film. I thought that this movie was beautiful, and imaginative. This was a definite joy to watch. I think maybe you need to be in the right mood for it, and understand what it's supposed to be? I enjoyed each of the vignettes, and couldn't wait for the next

September 4, 2010
itsjustme2004
Cynthia S.

Super Reviewer

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    1. David (Shunji Iwai segment): Does this mean we're getting married?
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
    1. Camille (Shunji Iwai segment): Hey, David, it's Camille. You know, when Dostoevsky was writing The Gambler, he signed a contract with his publisher saying that he would finish it in twenty-six days, and he did it, but he had the help of this young stenographer. This girl, she... she stayed with him and she helped him. And... afterwards they actually got married. Ha, isn't that cool? That's how he met his wife. Anyway I found this story in the preface for Crime and Punishment so I was thinking that... and, this would have to be between you and me, but... I was thinking that I could read the books and tell you what's going on and that way you could just focus on your music. But only if you're comfortable with this, and if you're not then you can just forget it, and you can quit, but if you are... then open this door.
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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