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.
Genre: Comedies
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
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The humour is more situational, less assertive, less reliant on wisecracks and obvious punchlines. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Johansson, fast becoming the Diane Keaton or Mia Farrow of Allen's mature years, treads a deft path between sensuousness, vulnerability and self-delusion. Full Review |
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[Allen's] best film in years. Full Review |
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3/5 |
One 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. Full Review |
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Occasionally 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 Full Review |
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Love 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 Full Review |
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Not unlike Neil Simon scrambling to be Henry Miller. Full Review |
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C- |
Woody, what happened? You stink on toast. Paul Chambers, CNN. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Allen has definitely made something special with this charming, light and warm romantic comedy. Full Review |
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B |
Interesting characters interact in a complex tangle of interesting relationships. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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.
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4/5 |
For all its meditations on romantic disappointments, this is a slight, sunny film. Anyone in need of some superior escapism should see it straightaway. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
I want to know how delivering punch lines in halting English while playing a shrieking harpy is in any way Oscar-worthy. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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C |
Leave it to Woody Allen to muck up a threesome involving Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz. Full Review |
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4.0/5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which Allen wrote and directed but did not act in, is Woody at the top of his game. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Slight, disposable but entertaining. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is an awful lot better than anything in his thankfully short "British" period. Full Review |
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