New York, I Love You Reviews

How easily you'll weather the film depends on your taste for poetic, obtuse cinema, often without too much of a rhyme or reason.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's not hard to get excited about the cinematic potential of a series of short stories about romance set in the most famous city in the world... but the vignettes themselves veer wildly between light charm and severe pretension.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Inconsistency is the curse of the anthology film, but the entries in the omnibus New York, I Love You are united by their near-total lack of interest.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

how well it holds your attention may depend on your degree of occupation with the titular city (which in this case, isn't really the whole of New York, but mainly the semi-private island of Manhattan)...

Full Review | Original Score: 83/100

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.

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What's remarkable here is the consistency of the mediocrity, the uniform fraudulence of the minipremises, the reliable awkwardness of such almost-English lines as "Your eyes would suffice to give tired men hope."

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If at first you partially succeed, repeat the formula.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Each short ends with thoroughly telegraphed ironic twists. Sometimes the twist is that a star shows up at the end, as if we would be so shocked as to scream "oh my god, it's Christina Ricci!"

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This wretched mishmash of clichés and lazy scene-setting is as distressing for its lack of curiosity as for its smothering sweetness. It's a criminal waste of time.

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Let's just stay friends.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Should have been called New York, I Sorta Kinda Like You but Only as a Friend, Okay?

Marginally engaging and sporadically clever, but often rather slight, unimaginative and lacking an authentic vibe of New York City.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.35/10

The whole thing stops and restarts itself so often, it feels longer than its 103-minute running time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

one more cultural artifact lost in translation

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Not every story is cliche, of course, just as not all are bad, but the rotten apples have a tendency to spoil the bunch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

While some of the segments are well constructed, the overall quality is simply uneven, and the transitions between segments sometimes verge on the contrived.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Some of the actors are fine and some of the scripts buy into one New York cliché of inter-personal relations; a fast-talking, argumentative type of dialogue. Still, they're not going to do much with a line like: "This city is full of surprises, isn't it."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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