To Rome with Love Reviews
Las Vegas CityLife
Inconsistencies in time and space elements, and a plot that echoes an episode of The Flintstones, join generally underdeveloped attempts at suspending disbelief to mar Allen's attempt to represent the city of Fellini.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Movie Metropolis
Compared to "Midnight in Paris," this homage isn't nearly as sure-footed.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Flicks.co.nz
I liked it - but I can see why some won't.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ABC Radio (Australia)
There are four "stories", linked by the fact that they all take place in Rome. None of them are funny, interesting or in the slightest way connected to how real people exist.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Laramie Movie Scope
These roughly connected comic sketches don't really add up to a whole movie, but there are enough laughs here and there to keep the film afloat.
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| Original Score: C
sbs.com.au
Allen's Roman sojourn results in little more than a series of fanciful vignettes, occasionally insightful and not without the odd chuckle, but mostly just rather silly and inconsequential.
3AW
After the surprise triumph of Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen returns with another charmer set in a foreign city... At 76, he's clearly at the top of his game.
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| Original Score: 3/5
FILMINK (Australia)
The laughs feel familiar, the characters feel like caricatures and Woody Allen seems to be on autopilot.
MovieFIX
Woody Allen's sudsy ode to Rome, while joyful and amusing, rings hollow.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Herald Sun (Australia)
The vacuous dialogue in Allen's screenplay is exceptionally clunky. What he envisages as cheeky comes off as creaky.
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| Original Score: 2/5
At the Movies (Australia)
He can't get away with what he got away with 50 years ago and that's the thing. His timing is off. He's not funny. He used to be achingly funny and beautiful.
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| Original Score: 1/5
At the Movies (Australia)
It's not a bad film, but TO ROME WITH LOVE is very minor Woody Allen.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Birmingham Post
A good-looking, familiar Woody romp.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Quickflix
It's a movie of moments - some great, some good, some flat out bad - just as his Allen's career has been made up of moments too.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Sunday Age
A largely forgettable letdown that could have, should have been a contender.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Urban Cinefile
To Rome With Love invites comparisons with Midnight in Paris - to the former's detriment. Opening and closing with Volare, one of the corniest in the Italian pop song repertoire, Allen wears the corny badge with pride throughout
Urban Cinefile
There a frenzy of activity with abundant characters, fast one liners, amusing moments and clever ideas in Woody Allen's love letter to Rome, although after the finesse of Midnight in Paris, it seems rather trivial
Film Threat
To Rome With Love is a triumphant examination of life and love's many splendors, spilt out on the streets on Rome at their wickedly absurd and poignantly profound moments...
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| Original Score: 4/5
HeyUGuys
If you turned on the lights at the end of To Rome With Love, all you would see is the face of a film critic, overcome with a frustrating sense of unfulfillment.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
