Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

All Critics (196) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (163) | Rotten (37) | DVD (17)

The script is witty and playful, the casting just right.

February 5, 2009 Full Review

Dave Calhoun

Time Out

Top Critic

The film belongs to Bardem and Cruz.

October 18, 2008

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

There is nothing wrong with Allen's determination to mix humor and drama, it's simply too bad he's not getting better at it.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Every time you're ready to count Woody Allen out for good, he comes back and surprises you.

October 18, 2008

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

Top Critic

When great artists maintain their health and energy into their 70s, amazing things can happen -- and they're happening with Woody Allen.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is fitfully good.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

Top Critic

It's a shift in tone for Allen; it's still a movie about sex and those who seek it, but it's hung on a sun-blushed, wine-sploshed Spanish love triangle that's more appealing and more amorous than anything the director has produced in decades.

September 29, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Although Penelope Cruz's performance is amusing, the film feels a bit forced, looking for meaning in Spain where there may not be any.

August 15, 2011 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Not unlike Neil Simon scrambling to be Henry Miller.

August 26, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Woody, what happened? You stink on toast. Paul Chambers, CNN.

July 22, 2009 Full Review

Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

Allen has definitely made something special with this charming, light and warm romantic comedy.

March 25, 2009 Full Review

Simon Weaving

Screenwize

we're really just watching neurotic New Yorkers displaced to the Spanish countryside

March 5, 2009 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Interesting characters interact in a complex tangle of interesting relationships.

February 12, 2009 Full Review

Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

This time, the words really should be believed: a massive return to form for Woody Allen. No lie. At this rate, we might even forgive him for Cassandra's Dream.

February 12, 2009

Charles Gant

Heat Magazine

For all its meditations on romantic disappointments, this is a slight, sunny film. Anyone in need of some superior escapism should see it straightaway.

February 12, 2009 Full Review

Cosmo Landesman

Times [UK]

Woody Allen's new film, announced as a romantic comedy, is far superior to the disastrous Match Point and Cassandra's Dream but much inferior to his best work.

February 12, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Philip French

Observer [UK]

I want to know how clumsily delivering punch lines in halting English while playing a shrieking harpy is in any way Oscar-worthy.

February 10, 2009 Full Review | Comments (6)

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

By the time Cruz appears, Vicky Cristina Barcelona has delivered on those initial good omens: it's Allen's best film in at least a decade.

February 10, 2009 Full Review

Nicholas Barber

Independent

Allen's last couple of movies have been far from vintage offerings but Vicky Cristina Barcelona is pure pleasure and finds him back on form. It is smart, sunny, frisky and extremely funny.

February 10, 2009 Full Review

Allan Hunter

Daily Express

Leave it to Woody Allen to muck up a threesome involving Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz.

February 9, 2009 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

• 1. Juan Antonio: Life is short. Life is dull. Life is full of pain and this is a chance for something special.
  – Submitted by Mati M (2 months ago)
• 1. Juan Antonio: We were both sure that... our relation was perfect, but there was something missing. You know? Like, love requires such a perfect balance. It's... like the human body. It may turn that you have all the vitamins and minerals, but if... there is minus a single, tiny ingredient... missing, like, like, like, like, ooh, like salt, for example... one dies.
  2. Cristina: Salt?
  – Submitted by Samir S (9 months ago)
• 1. Juan Antonio: We are meant for each other and not meant for each other. It's a contradiction.
  – Submitted by Samir S (9 months ago)
• 1. Maria Elena: Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.
  – Submitted by Valentina O (12 months ago)
• 1. Juan Antonio: Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain and this is the chance for something special. [to make love]
  – Submitted by Lars P (17 months ago)
• 1. Vicky: Third, even if I wasn't engaged and was free to have some kind of dalliance with a Spaniard, I wouldn't pick this one.
  – Submitted by Christine D (22 months ago)

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