[Norah Jones] is a blank presence -- she can't give the film the heart or soul it needs.
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09/12/08
My Blueberry Nights (2008)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:56
Rotten:59
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Though well filmed, My Blueberry Nights is a mixed bag of dedicated performers working with thin material.
Theatrical Release:22-02-2008
Synopsis: With his first English-language film, beloved Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's touch loses none of the seductive luster and magic that made his Chinese films so popular. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS... [More]
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Natalie Portman
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Reviews for My Blueberry Nights
Saccharine, cliched, groaningly predictable and -- in short -- utterly abysmal.
09/12/08
A calorie-free snack masquerading as a substantial meal.
09/12/08
Wong Kar Wai's visual style with its evocative mood is the mainstay of this lament to love, although its rambling narrative detracts from the film as a whole.
09/07/08
As visually lush and distinctive and enveloping as you would expect from a Wong Kar-wai film, with space for performances that have impact.
08/29/08
Consider it Wong lite.
08/01/08
What the film ends up feeling like is someone else's clumsy attempt to imitate Kar-Wai's style while missing out on his obsessive perfection and emotional depth.
07/30/08
My Blueberry Nights proves Norah Jones isn't ready for a movie career quite yet.
07/08/08
It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece.
07/06/08
The story had promise but it ends up being half baked by a director who wants to show off that he went to film school.
06/08/08
My Blueberry Nights plays much like a dream; different vignettes fade into each other ... [but] nothing ever quite adds up.
06/04/08
Wong's Hong Kong efforts are steeped in romanticism, but here, something clearly got lost in translation.
05/28/08
My Blueberry Nights at any length doesn't begin to answer the question why Jones, who seems nice in a bland, girl next door way, would ever be tapped to star in a movie.
05/22/08
It's essentially a gloriously romantic film made by a very romantic filmmaker who can see beauty where none supposedly exists.
05/21/08
The ensemble drama has some modest charms, which includes a surprising, old-fashioned sweetness and interpretation of romance.
05/16/08
... dreamy, woozy, elliptical and gorgeously infused with orange-red light and smeary Matisse blues. It's visually beautiful and its open-ended narrative is loose and suggestive
05/16/08
It's sweet and mostly satisfying, like a silky dessert at the end of a relaxed meal.
05/13/08
[A] flaky disaster.
05/09/08
The casting problem starts with the movie's lead, Norah Jones.
05/09/08
(Norah) Jones doesn't merely hold her own in a pouty screen debut of note; she looks comfortable and purrs with the confidence of someone who belongs.
05/02/08
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