Right from the beginning, there's a discomforting sense of banality blanketing the film: the journey, the pie motif, the faith in "new beginnings."
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04/04/08
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
My Blueberry Nights is like a short film that goes on for too long. It is a flimsy, if inoffensive, addition to Wong Kar Wai's canon, an insignificant diversion at best.
04/04/08
A movie for those of us who have wanted to see Wong Kar Wai's talents applied to storytelling rather than abstraction.
04/03/08
My Blueberry Nights feels like an abundantly attractive travelogue, the work of an artist who's passing through rather than taking up residence.
04/03/08
mostly a success, though set apart from Wong's previous work in that it won't have people coming back over and over again
04/03/08
Despite its flaws, the film has the same dreamy, romantic melancholy that distinguishes Wong's best films.
04/03/08
Emotionally aloof, but never far from a moment of beauty.
04/03/08
It may not be what you expect. But with Wong Kar-wai, it seldom is.
04/03/08
Instead of focusing on the carcass of love gone bad, the film is merely the flies buzzing around it, wallowing in sadness with little to do or say.
04/03/08
One hopes that, having possibly purged his romanticized preconceptions about the U.S., Wong comes back sometime, gets comfortable with his setting, and forges a unique vision.
04/03/08
All of these groaner developments, coscripted by Wong and crime novelist Lawrence Block, feel like a tour of the waxiest 1990s clichés ever.
04/03/08
Sweet drama is stylish but not very memorable.
04/02/08
Here [Wong's] found-art sets appear cluttered, his still-life tableaus clichéd and his beauty-shot close-ups unglamorous.
04/02/08
My Blueberry Nights hints that buried in Wong's spicy odd noodlings may be an even better conventional filmmaker.
04/02/08
In My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-wai’s first American-set, English-language film -- and his first feature shot on video -- the Hong Kong filmmaker has achieved a ravishing, triple triumph.
04/02/08
Since it began shooting in June 2006, it’s been on the shelf ever since, and you’ll instantly know why. It’s like watching ice melt.
04/02/08
Fortunately, Mr. Wong has made the perilous journey into a new language without sacrificing his artistic soul and very personal visual style.
04/02/08
The movie is all over the map in more than just its cross-country itinerary, and these stars are all far too good looking to imagine them as unrequited lovers and perpetual losers. But that blueberry pie sure looks awfully good.
04/02/08
The disappointment here doesn't have much to do with Wong doing America -- he's been doing America for years, even in Chinese -- but with Wong doing Wong, and not up to his own standard.
04/02/08
Critical darling auteur Wong Kar Wai may have a knack for luscious cinematic compositions, but his limited narrative sensibilities hobble this scattershot romantic drama.
04/01/08
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