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My Blueberry Nights
The Weinstein Company
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for mature thematic material including violence, drinking and smoking
Starring
Jude Law,
Norah Jones,
Natalie Portman,
Rachel Weisz,
and
David Strathairn
In Wong Kar Wai's debut English-language feature, the internationally acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning. After a rough breakup, Elizabeth sets out on a trip across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream, and a soulful new friend, a cafe owner, all to search for something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a troubled cop, his estranged wife, and a down-on-her luck gambler with a score to settle. Through these individuals, Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself. (Weinstein Company)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Wong Kar Wai
Lawrence Block
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Wong Kar Wai
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 1, 2008
Theatrical: April 4, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Hong Kong / China / France |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Wildly romantic.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's a stylish and sweet film with moments of affecting brilliance that counterbalance its flaws.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Despite its flaws, the film has the same dreamy, romantic melancholy that distinguishes Wong's best films.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Wong's visions of a New York café, a Memphis bar, and a Vegas casino--not to mention the swaths of beautiful country in the Southwest--have that enveloping quality that make his films so persistently seductive. The natives should feel flattered.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Norah Jones, making her big-screen debut as a wistful wanderer, is a beautiful blank, and the fragments barely add up to a movie.

63
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
All this is frustrating, as the picture contains a few grace notes that remind one what an acute filmmaker Wong can be.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Music and nostalgia are what fuel all this filmmaker's movies, though, even a half-baked translation like this one.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The director is chasing a mood here -- a mood, an atmosphere and feelings -- much as he did in "In the Mood for Love."

50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
As much a trifle as its title suggests, My Blueberry Nights sees Hong Kong stylist Wong Kar Wai applying his characteristic visual and thematic doodles to a wispy story of lovelorn Yanks.

50
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
The disappointment here doesn't have much to do with Wong doing America--he's been doing America for years, even in Chinese--but with Wong doing Wong, and not up to his own standard.

50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
My Blueberry Nights may not quite be what fans of either Jones or Wong Kar-wai -- directing his first film in English -- are expecting. It's a late-night, lovelorn mood piece in a minor key, not complicated or convoluted, finally more confection than substance.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Isn’t eye candy; it’s a drool-worthy slice of eye pie.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Often ponderous, sometimes pretentious and mostly clichéd, this contrived meditation on longing and loss feels like a missed opportunity.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
Alternately precious and vapid, the movie attempts to wrest metaphors from a jar of house keys, and eternal verities from pastry. Slice the pie how you will, it's still half-baked.

50
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The biggest problem is Wong's decision to cast Norah Jones as Elizabeth, a New Yorker who hits the road after a love affair goes bad. Jones, in her first movie, can't act. (There, I said it!)

50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
After 90 minutes of My Blueberry Nights, which pass pleasantly enough, with swirly, mood-saturated colors; lovely faces; and nice music, you may feel a bit logy yourself -- filled up, sugar-addled, but not really satisfied.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
A stunner of a movie. But all those gorgeous images never add up to a full picture.

50
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai has an undeservedly high reputation as a master stylist. He's more like a master window dresser.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The use of recognizable movie stars doesn't help, r serve Wong's style. My Blueberry Nights" should have played like a memory, but its hard-living, luckless losers are too beautiful to be believed.

50
Slate
Dana Stevens
There's a curious mismatch between the surface of the movie and what lies beneath it. Wong's technique is layered and detailed like a couture gown, but the story it hangs on is as generic as a seamstress's dress form.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Even with dyed hair, heavy makeup and a cigarette dangling from her bottom lip, Portman still looks like a schoolgirl pretending to be somebody's mom.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
There are momentary pleasures, to be sure – a corker of a kiss here, an Otis Redding-backed barroom slink there – but frankly, I'm a little weary of Wong wearing "that same old shaggy dress."

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's beautiful to look at, but there's little there to savor.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
In these dusty American settings, the wistful melancholy of Wong's earlier movies seems fairly contrived.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Fractured, tentative, oh-so-artsy and very much in the style of Wong's previous Hong Kong-set boy-meets-girl movies. But this time, the effect is contrived: a star-driven pseudo-indie affair that will please neither celebrity worshipers nor cineastes.


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