how well it holds your attention may depend on your degree of occupation with the titular city (which in this case, isn't really the whole of New York, but mainly the semi-private island of Manhattan)...
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11/20/09
New York, I Love You (2009)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:23
Rotten:32
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Like many anthologies, New York, I Love You has problems of consistency, but it isn't without its moments.
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $1,466,467
Synopsis: In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come to life in NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU – a collaboration of storytelling from some of today’s most imaginative filmmakers... [More]
Reviews for New York, I Love You
Even if you're a post-World Series Yankees-hater, it's hard not to love the New York in New York, I Love You.
11/12/09
Each short ends with thoroughly telegraphed ironic twists. Sometimes the twist is that a star shows up at the end, as if we would be so shocked as to scream "oh my god, it's Christina Ricci!"
11/10/09
The whole thing stops and restarts itself so often, it feels longer than its 103-minute running time.
11/05/09
While some of the segments are well constructed, the overall quality is simply uneven, and the transitions between segments sometimes verge on the contrived.
10/31/09
It's a bit too arty, and a bit too cute, but it charms and cajoles with the pluck of a native New Yorker.
10/30/09
The project is lush and seductive as a whole, though some segments are especially vibrant.
10/30/09
Because so many of the segments are about young lovers, the standouts involve people past their prime.
10/29/09
Should have been called New York, I Sorta Kinda Like You but Only as a Friend, Okay?
10/26/09
This wretched mishmash of clichés and lazy scene-setting is as distressing for its lack of curiosity as for its smothering sweetness. It's a criminal waste of time.
10/23/09
Eleven short films exploring love, the ties that bind people together, and the manifold mysteries of human nature.
10/22/09
The film only feels like two or three different sort of approaches are represented. They don’t really feel like widely different attacks on the material.
10/19/09
Marginally engaging and sporadically clever, but often rather slight, unimaginative and lacking an authentic vibe of New York City.
10/18/09
If this New York love letter follow-up to 'Paris j'taime' is successful expect another sequel. 'Cleveland, I Love You', anyone?
10/17/09
There is only one segment out of the entire series of shorts that I even liked... Everything else is soooo actor-y.
10/17/09
To see this film is to understand why it is better to have loved and maybe lost, as the cliché goes, than to have missed out on the messy exhilaration of it all
10/16/09
The characters are all more or less useless, inhabiting the frivolous tippy-top of Maslow's pyramid of needs, with little sense that there's anyone essential at the bottom. It's fun, but decadent.
10/16/09
Top CriticWhere's the ethnic diversity? The cultural overflow? The dirt, the chaos, the cramped quarters, the people who look like us, rather than movie stars?
10/16/09
Even the more predictable prove pleasurable.
10/16/09
Top CriticNot every story is cliche, of course, just as not all are bad, but the rotten apples have a tendency to spoil the bunch.
10/16/09
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