Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 157 | Rotten: 35
A beguiling tragicomedy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona charms with beautiful views of the Spanish city and a marvelously well-matched cast.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 6
A beguiling tragicomedy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona charms with beautiful views of the Spanish city and a marvelously well-matched cast.
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Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona stars Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson as best friends Vicky and Cristina. As the movie opens, the pair of twentysomethings travel to Barcelona so that Vicky can work on her post-graduate degree. The two meet the charming artist Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), who offers to take them on a vacation and make love to them. Vicky, being a happily engaged young woman, refuses, but Cristina is eager for this life experience. A love triangle begins
May 17, 2008 Wide
Jan 27, 2009
$23.2M
The Weinstein Co.
All Critics (194) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (161) | Rotten (37) | DVD (17)
The film belongs to Bardem and Cruz.
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.
When great artists maintain their health and energy into their 70s, amazing things can happen -- and they're happening with Woody Allen.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is fitfully good.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the cinematic equivalent of a book on tape: a movie that watches itself for you and tells you what it sees.
The performances are all wonderful, but top honors go to the amazing Penelope Cruz.
Although Penelope Cruz's performance is amusing, the film feels a bit forced, looking for meaning in Spain where there may not be any.
Not unlike Neil Simon scrambling to be Henry Miller.
Woody, what happened? You stink on toast. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Allen has definitely made something special with this charming, light and warm romantic comedy.
we're really just watching neurotic New Yorkers displaced to the Spanish countryside
Interesting characters interact in a complex tangle of interesting relationships.
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.
For all its meditations on romantic disappointments, this is a slight, sunny film. Anyone in need of some superior escapism should see it straightaway.
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.
I want to know how clumsily delivering punch lines in halting English while playing a shrieking harpy is in any way Oscar-worthy.
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.
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.
Leave it to Woody Allen to muck up a threesome involving Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which Allen wrote and directed but did not act in, is Woody at the top of his game.
A pleasant surprise, I expected this to be quite the chick flick, instead was a great travel film, with culture, romance, ups and downs and experimental feelings, totally enjoyed it.
January 22, 2009Super Reviewer
What boosts VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA from being a sappy, shoddy romance is the tour de force performance from Penà (C)lope Cruz. Cruz portrays Maria Elena, a ruthless, suicidal shrew. Though only supporting to the plot, when she delivers her role, we are instantly attetive to her loud, implausible character.
August 12, 2011Super Reviewer
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