To Rome with Love Reviews
We Got This Covered
To Rome With Love finds Woody Allen on autopilot, and not a particularly fine-tuned autopilot either. It's always good to see what Allen has in store, but this outing is disappointing and exhausting.
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| Original Score: 4.5/10
NECN
After the cinematic glory Woody Allen bestowed upon Paris, to be given this kind of treatment is akin to being served Steak-umms instead of filet mignon.
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| Original Score: D
MovieFIX
Woody Allen's sudsy ode to Rome, while joyful and amusing, rings hollow.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film School Rejects
It's a bouncy trifle that allows Allen to explore some of his favorite topics in a more light-hearted fashion, but while it cooks up a number of laughs and more than a few great performances, it's nothing less than a minor effort.
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| Original Score: C+
Boston Phoenix
Allen undermines these slight stories by cutting between them, even though the timelines don't match up. As Baldwin says: "With age comes exhaustion."
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| Original Score: 2/4
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
San Diego Union-Tribune
Even at 76, Allen maintains his grueling pace of releasing one film a year, which doesn't allow much time for finely tuned scripts, robust character development or visual finesse.
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| Original Score: 2/4
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The dialogue sounds as if Allen hasn't been out of doors in the past 30 years. The characters are stale stage archetypes. And the all-star cast he's rounded up to play the parts often recognize this.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
The Sunday Age
A largely forgettable letdown that could have, should have been a contender.
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| Original Score: 2/5
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
This impossibly cheerful feature is lost in translation thanks to its dull comedy, irritatingly happy outlook and misplaced fantasy.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Top CriticOnce upon a time, calling a movie "lesser Woody Allen" might be considered a slap in the face. Now, it's more-or-less expected.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
To Rome with Love feels thin and lazy, another collection of familiar ensemble skits carelessly strung together in a cross-generational contemplation of the Big Issues that have plagued Allen's life and fed his art.
Allen probably makes too many movies. This one's OK. He'll make more.
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| Original Score: 2/4
What's on screen is a collection of clichés intermingled with outlandish farce or surreal fantasy.
Little White Lies
The film's litany of bad ideas overshadows any of its thematic concerns.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
Daily Express
None of the storylines are very funny or have any notable bearing on one another.
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| Original Score: 2/5
East Bay Express
Frustratingly written, haphazardly episodic comic pastiche.
Times-Picayune
Woody Allen follows up his magical Midnight in Paris with a sweet but entirely shrug-worthy stroll through Rome.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film Journal International
Thinly conceived segments set in Rome represent a comedown for Woody Allen after the huge success of last year's Midnight in Paris.
