The best thing about Vicky Cristina Barcelona is that it acknowledges the maddening complexity of desire.
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08/15/08
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:151
Rotten:34
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: A beguiling tragicomedy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona charms with beautiful views of the Spanish city and a marvelously well-matched cast.
Rated: 12A [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:06-02-2009
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Vicky 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
Vicky 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 CriticA romantic drama that I liked even though I had no investment in any of the characters.
08/15/08
It'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
Likable, beautifully acted, scenic and sexy.
08/15/08
The sort of film Eric Rohmer might make if he were ever in a chipper mood: sincere, delicately funny, a little staid, a little precious, and more interested in the ebb and flow of the heart than in the dubious rewards of sensational narrative twists.
08/15/08
Through it all, Vicky Cristina Barcelona remains unaccountably romantic, a confirmation that love, elusive and painful as it can be, is still worth pursuing.
08/15/08
[Allen's] funniest movie in years and arguably his sexiest.
08/15/08
a neatly balanced tale of a carefully balanced menage a trois among people with unbalanced libidos, fluctuating interests and roving eyes.
08/15/08
Penelope Cruz kick-starts Woody's latest, turning it into a dizzy, daffy treatise on the place of passion in art and love.
08/15/08
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's giddy romantic comedy, is the funniest film he has made since 1995's Mighty Aphrodite.
08/15/08
A 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
Rich, 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
this is one of the more interesting things Allen has done of late. Tonally, it definitely feels more European than anything he's made — even more than some of his other, recent European film ventures.
08/15/08
After 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
A 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
There's something intriguing going on here. It's a movie about the sacrifices that people make to be happy.
08/15/08
He 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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