ReelViews
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4
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By James Berardinelli
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Jul 09, 2012
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Once upon a time, calling a movie "lesser Woody Allen" might be considered a slap in the face. Now, it's more-or-less expected.
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Chicago Reader
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0
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By Ben Sachs
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Jul 07, 2012
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Most of the characters are archetypes, yet Allen treats them with genuine affection and avoids the bitterness that's marred much of his recent work.
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Denver Post
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10
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By Ricardo Baca
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Jul 07, 2012
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Allen's story moves along quite wonderfully, primarily because of his nuanced casting.
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Boston Globe
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6
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By Ty Burr
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Jul 06, 2012
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A charming but terribly self-indulgent trifle that's less than the sum of its many parts.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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6
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By Steven Rea
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Jul 06, 2012
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Alas, it's a love letter written on the fly, with brushstroke characters working their way through a cluster of sketchy, disconnected plotlines.
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Globe and Mail
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6
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By Liam Lacey
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Jul 06, 2012
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Not great, but not grating.
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Detroit News
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6
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By Tom Long
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Jul 06, 2012
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It's minor Woody, but it's still Woody.
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Detroit Movie Examiner
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6
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By Tom Santilli
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Jul 06, 2012
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To Rome With Love is your basic Woody Allen film, with the setting swapped out. This is the famed New Yorker's 41st feature film since 1969, an outstanding feat. While many of his films showed his love for all things New York, in recent years Woody has spread some of that love around the world from the UK (Match Point), to Spain (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), to France (last year's critically-acclaimed Midnight in Paris). It is now Rome's turn i...
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Phoenix Movie Examiner
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4
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By Joseph Airdo
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Jul 06, 2012
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"To Rome with Love" is a mess of a movie.The primary problem with writer/director Woody Allen's latest motion picture is that it features four stories that are intercut yet do not have anything to do with one another. To make matters worse, they take place over different lengths of time....
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Toronto Star
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5
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By Peter Howell
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Jul 05, 2012
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The best thing that can said about the picture is that it's a pleasant time-waster that also doubles as a travelogue for anyone interested in visiting Italy.
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Arizona Republic
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7
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By Kerry Lengel
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Jul 05, 2012
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A film that sometimes comes off as an intersection of tangents, but it also gives rise to moments of joyous whimsy.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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5
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By Colin Covert
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Jul 05, 2012
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Fans of Allen's magnificent earlier work can only look at this effort and feel their own brand of Ozymandias melancholia.
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Tampa Movie Examiner
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4
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By Joe Belcastro
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Jul 01, 2012
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More like, To Ramble with Dumb.See that Woody Allen?...
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The Atlantic
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0
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By Christopher Orr
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Jun 30, 2012
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Allen seems to be aiming for the precise intersection of art and commerce where sophistication is implied, but nothing that takes place is ever obscure or challenging or revelatory.
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New Yorker
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0
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By David Denby
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Jun 29, 2012
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Woody Allen's new movie, To Rome with Love, is light and fast, with some of the sharpest dialogue and acting that he's put on the screen in years. The picture gently but surely moves back and forth between romantic comedy and satirical farce.
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Washington Post
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4
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By Michael O'Sullivan
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Jun 29, 2012
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Somewhere in here is a real movie, but it's hard to find in all the mess (which, despite everything, is actually funny from time to time).
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San Francisco Chronicle
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5
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By Mick LaSalle
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Jun 29, 2012
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It's often inept, moment to moment.
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Christian Science Monitor
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6
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By Peter Rainer
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Jun 29, 2012
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It's all rather sweet but instantly evanescent.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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8
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By Roger Ebert
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Jun 28, 2012
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[It] generates no particular excitement or surprise, but it provides the sort of pleasure [Allen] seems able to generate almost on demand.
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Chicago Tribune
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5
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By Michael Phillips
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Jun 28, 2012
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Allen probably makes too many movies. This one's OK. He'll make more.
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San Jose Mercury News
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6
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By Charlie McCollum
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Jun 27, 2012
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If you're expecting another "Midnight in Paris" -- and you may well in the first moments of the new film -- you will be disappointed.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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4
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By Roger Moore
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Jun 26, 2012
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The dialogue sounds as if Allen hasn't been out of doors in the past 30 years. The characters are stale stage archetypes. And the all-star cast he's rounded up to play the parts often recognize this.
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LA Movie Examiner
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4
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By Billy Tatum
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Jun 26, 2012
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Hot dogs, illegal fireworks, bikinis and blockbuster films are what make summer fun.However, you won't find those things when you check out another summer tradition: a Woody Allen film....
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Slate
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0
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By Dana Stevens
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Jun 25, 2012
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At times this multiple-plot meander through the glorious labyrinth of the Eternal City can feel aimless, even lazy. But in the film's best moments, that willingness to wander works to its advantage.
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Richard Roeper.com
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7
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By Richard Roeper
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Jun 23, 2012
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Not as creative as "Midnight in Paris," but it's a funny, quirky, frothy diversion.
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NPR
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0
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By Bob Mondello
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Jun 22, 2012
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To Rome with Love is just froth - a romantic sampler with some decent jokes and gorgeous Roman backdrops.
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Wall Street Journal
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0
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By Joe Morgenstern
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Jun 22, 2012
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What's on screen is a collection of clichés intermingled with outlandish farce or surreal fantasy.
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NPR
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0
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By Ella Taylor
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Jun 22, 2012
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To Rome with Love feels thin and lazy, another collection of familiar ensemble skits carelessly strung together in a cross-generational contemplation of the Big Issues that have plagued Allen's life and fed his art.
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USA Today
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6
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By Claudia Puig
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Jun 22, 2012
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It's often frivolous and banal, though never tedious. It does offer moments of buoyant humor, farcical fun and consistently gorgeous cinematography.
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Los Angeles Times
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6
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By Betsy Sharkey
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Jun 22, 2012
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An affectionate but meandering comedy that contemplates romance, fame, legacy and longing.
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Newark Star-Ledger
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5
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By Stephen Whitty
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Jun 22, 2012
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Even loyal fans have to admit this isn't so much a movie as four little one-page New Yorker stories, strung together with "Volare" and one-too-many shots of the Trevi fountain.
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New York Post
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6
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By Kyle Smith
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Jun 22, 2012
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The comedy is passable, and the ways the stories play off each other provides enough to think about to be engaging.
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New York Times
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7
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By A.O. Scott
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Jun 21, 2012
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One of the most delightful things about "To Rome With Love" is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal, and how unabashedly it revels in pure silliness.
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Entertainment Weekly
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6
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By Owen Gleiberman
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Jun 21, 2012
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Woody Allen has become such a beguiling travel agent that he rolls through these stories with a relaxed effervescence that is rather infectious.
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Rolling Stone
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8
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By Peter Travers
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Jun 21, 2012
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To Rome With Love lacks the overarching theme of time and regret that distinguished Allen's last romantic comedy, but it has pleasures galore.
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TIME Magazine
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0
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By Mary F. Pols
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Jun 21, 2012
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It's lazy, frivolous filmmaking -- To Rome With Love has about as much intent as a vacation -- but in spurts, gives real pleasure.
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NewsBlaze
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0
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By Prairie Miller
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Jun 20, 2012
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A cast of familiar but never tedious Woody characters sprung from his humble, neurotic imagination, that he is never shy about sharing. And seemingly eager as always to engage the audience as his personal metaphorical shrink. Woody takes a guilt trip.
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tonymacklin.net
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4
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By Tony Macklin
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Jun 20, 2012
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In To Rome with Love, Woody is back on screen. His flippant patter is still amusing, but his persona doesn't sharpen the movie at all. His patented anxiousness is distracting. Fortunately, it doesn't distract from anything interesting.
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Village Voice
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0
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By Chris Packham
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Jun 20, 2012
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This Rome is luminous, and Allen, as in Manhattan, is great at imbuing his film with a strong sense of location.
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MSN Movies
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8
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By Glenn Kenny
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Jun 20, 2012
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...a refreshing summer entertainment, not too sweet but not terribly bitter, and very picturesque besides.
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New York Observer
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5
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By Rex Reed
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Jun 20, 2012
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It's time to pack up the Vuitton and come home, Woody. Your inspiration is thin, you're running out of euros, and you're having a bad day.
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Boxoffice Magazine
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4
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By Mark Olsen
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Jun 19, 2012
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To Rome With Love feels unfinished-a problem it partly addresses but can't recover from.
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ComingSoon.net
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6
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By Edward Douglas
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Jun 19, 2012
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A disappointing follow-up to Midnight in Paris.
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Compuserve
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8
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By Harvey S. Karten
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Jun 19, 2012
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Adultery is easy; comedy is hard. But what lifts this film well above mediocrity is the presence of Woody Allen himself after a six years' absence from acting.
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Associated Press
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5
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By David Germain
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Jun 19, 2012
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It's not Nero who's fiddling, but Allen, bopping and dithering around the city like a tourist so desperate to cram in all the sights that he comes away only with a few crisp highlights and a lot of out-of-focus snapshots.
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Slant Magazine
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2
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By Bill Weber
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Jun 18, 2012
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"With age comes exhaustion," according to a rueful line late in the film, and it serves as a fitting diagnosis for Woody Allen's latest fallen souffle set in a European cultural capital.
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JoBlo's Movie Emporium
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4
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By JimmyO
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Jun 18, 2012
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This impossibly cheerful feature is lost in translation thanks to its dull comedy, irritatingly happy outlook and misplaced fantasy.
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ColeSmithey.com
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3
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By Cole Smithey
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Jun 18, 2012
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"To Rome With Love" could easily be construed as more of a "French letter" than a love letter to Italy's Eternal City.
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Yahoo! Movies
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0
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By Staci Layne Wilson
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Jun 18, 2012
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Mildly entertaining.
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New York Magazine
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0
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By David Edelstein
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Jun 18, 2012
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I was blissed out during much of To Rome With Love, but I have to acknowledge its creepy side.
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Film School Rejects
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5
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By Kate Erbland
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Jun 16, 2012
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It's a bouncy trifle that allows Allen to explore some of his favorite topics in a more light-hearted fashion, but while it cooks up a number of laughs and more than a few great performances, it's nothing less than a minor effort.
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Screen International
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0
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By Lee Marshall
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Jun 16, 2012
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Though it has a certain charm, To Rome With Love is little more than a travel brochure with jokes.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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4
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By Emanuel Levy
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Jun 16, 2012
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Frivolous, schematic, and overlong, Allen's valentine to the Eternal City is one of the weakest entries in his European film tour.
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indieWIRE
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0
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By Eric Kohn
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Jun 15, 2012
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Funny in fragments, Woody Allen's "To Rome With Love" is crammed with enough unrelated incidents to fill one of his short-story collections and has the same lack of cohesion.
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Variety
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0
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By Peter Debruge
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Jun 15, 2012
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This pleasantly diverting, none-too-strenuous arthouse excursion feels like a throwback to Allen's short-story anthologies, with the added pleasure of seeing a game cast play along.
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Hollywood Reporter
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0
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By Todd McCarthy
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Jun 15, 2012
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Allen the writer-director has gone tone-deaf this time around, somehow not realizing that the nonstop prattling of the less than scintillating characters almost never rings true.
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