The humour is more situational, less assertive, less reliant on wisecracks and obvious punchlines.
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01/15/09
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
82 %
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Reviews Counted: 182
Fresh: 150
Rotten:32
Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus: A beguiling tragicomedy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona charms with beautiful views of the Spanish city and a marvelously well-matched cast.
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $23,164,041
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
Top CriticJohansson, fast becoming the Diane Keaton or Mia Farrow of Allen's mature years, treads a deft path between sensuousness, vulnerability and self-delusion.
01/02/09
Top Critic[Allen's] best film in years.
12/26/08
Top CriticOne of the world’s most beautiful cities provides a stunning backdrop for a fairly routine comedy about a culture clash between Americans on holiday and their Spanish hosts.
12/19/08
Top CriticOccasionally endearingly audacious, Woody Allen's screenplay for Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a further riff on the unique, unpredictable nature of romantic relationships among the human race
12/19/08
Top CriticLove has never been so complicated as in Woody Allen's scrumptious Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a sexy romp involving a ménage a trois that keeps changing like the ever-changing tide of love itself
12/19/08
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04/23/09
Allen has definitely made something special with this charming, light and warm romantic comedy.
03/25/09
Interesting characters interact in a complex tangle of interesting relationships.
02/12/09
This time, the words really should be believed: a massive return to form for Woody Allen. No lie. At this rate, we might even forgive him for Cassandra’s Dream.
02/12/09
For all its meditations on romantic disappointments, this is a slight, sunny film. Anyone in need of some superior escapism should see it straightaway.
02/12/09
Woody Allen's new film, announced as a romantic comedy, is far superior to the disastrous Match Point and Cassandra's Dream but much inferior to his best work.
02/12/09
I want to know how delivering punch lines in halting English while playing a shrieking harpy is in any way Oscar-worthy.
02/10/09
By the time Cruz appears, Vicky Cristina Barcelona has delivered on those initial good omens: it's Allen's best film in at least a decade.
02/10/09
Allen’s last couple of movies have been far from vintage offerings but Vicky Cristina Barcelona is pure pleasure and finds him back on form. It is smart, sunny, frisky and extremely funny.
02/10/09
Leave it to Woody Allen to muck up a threesome involving Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz.
02/09/09
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which Allen wrote and directed but did not act in, is Woody at the top of his game.
02/06/09
Slight, disposable but entertaining. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is an awful lot better than anything in his thankfully short "British" period.
02/06/09
Top CriticVicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's latest comeback, is nothing like the return to form his apologists claim, but it's not terrible, which is a mercy after his grim trio of British projects.
02/06/09
No doubt about it, Allen’s latest throwaway rom-com is utterly silly, forgettable and predictable. It’s also his most purely entertaining film in years.
02/06/09
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