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12/29/08
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:27
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: A beguiling tragicomedy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona charms with beautiful views of the Spanish city and a marvelously well-matched cast.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Aug 15, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $23,164,041
Synopsis: Two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist (Javier Bardem) and his beautiful but insane ex-wife (Penelope Cruz). Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is straight-laced and about to... [More]
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem
Director: Woody Allen
Reviews for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Top CriticThe film belongs to Bardem and Cruz.
10/18/08
Top CriticThere is nothing wrong with Allen's determination to mix humor and drama, it's simply too bad he's not getting better at it.
10/18/08
Top CriticWhen great artists maintain their health and energy into their 70s, amazing things can happen -- and they're happening with Woody Allen.
10/18/08
Top CriticVicky Cristina Barcelona is fitfully good.
10/18/08
Top CriticVicky Cristina Barcelona is the cinematic equivalent of a book on tape: a movie that watches itself for you and tells you what it sees.
09/16/08
Top CriticThe performances are all wonderful, but top honors go to the amazing Penelope Cruz.
08/22/08
Top CriticVicky Cristina Barcelona is a rueful comedy about two young American women who savor many Continental delicacies.
08/18/08
Top CriticA bittersweet meditation on art and passion and on love in its many guises.
08/15/08
Top CriticAs exhilarating, captivating and enjoyable as a summer romance in an exotic city.
08/15/08
Top CriticVicky Cristina Barcelona is a comedy, a good one, and also one of Allen's best-ever meditations on the many entanglements of love.
08/15/08
Top CriticVicky Cristina Barcelona is so engaging so much of the time that it feels like a modest rejuvenation: evidence that a summer in Spain can do wonders for a writer-director who may not have outlived his prime.
08/15/08
Top CriticIt's literally difficult to believe that the person who made this picturesque, clueless, oddly misanthropic picture also made Annie Hall and Crimes and Misdemeanors.
08/15/08
Top Critic[Allen's] funniest movie in years and arguably his sexiest.
08/15/08
Top CriticA lightweight musing on love's infinite variety, not especially comic, and certainly not tragic, but breezing along somewhere in the meditative middle.
08/15/08
Top CriticRich, complex, funny, erotic, compassionate and thoughtful, Vicky Cristina Barcelona may be the most fully realized film Woody Allen has made in two decades.
08/15/08
Top CriticAfter Vicky Cristina Barcelona, you may feel you've learned something about the world. How lasting those epiphanies are depends on your constitution. But you don't have to go native to enjoy the trip.
08/15/08
Top CriticA movie brimming with beautiful people and beautiful scenery; there's a contagious enthusiasm as this movie whirs through the sights and sounds of Barcelona.
08/15/08
Top CriticHe is a little like Eric Rohmer here. The actors are attractive, the city is magnificent, the love scenes don't get all sweaty, and everybody finishes the summer a little wiser and with a lifetime of memories. What more could you ask?
08/15/08
Top CriticWatching Allen fart out a story when he has no characters is always painful.
08/15/08
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