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New York, I Love You

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New York, I Love You reviews
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6.6 User Score:

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Based on 26 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Romance

Written by: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Alexandra Cassavetes, Hu Hong, Shunji Iwai
Olivier Lecot, Joshua Marston
Suketu Mehta, Yao Meng
Anthony Minghella, Jeff Nathanson, Natalie Portman, Stephen Winter, Andrei Zvyagintsev

Directed by: Faith Akin, Yvan Attal, Alan Hughes
Shunji Iwai, Scarlett Johansson, Shekhar Kapur
Joshua Martson, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman
Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen, Andrey Zvyaginstev

Release Date:
Theatrical: October 16, 2009
DVD: February 2, 2010

Running Time: 110 minutes, Color

Origin: France | USA

Summary

RATING: R for language and sexual content

Starring Kevin Bacon, Justin Bartha, Maggie Q, Orlando Bloom, Chris Cooper, Drea de Matteo, Eddie D'vir, James Caan, Carla Gugino, Ethan Hawke, John Hurt, Hayden Christensen, Irfan Khan, Shia LaBeouf, Cloris Leachman, Blake Lively, Natalie Portman, Rachel Bilson, Shu Qi, Julie Christie, Christina Ricci, Olivia Thirlby, Goran Visnjic, Eli Wallach, Saul Williams, Robin Wright Penn, and Anton Yelchin, Burt Young, Ugur Yucel

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 and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the city’s heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself. (Vivendi Entertainment)

What The Critics Said

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...

75

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Oddly, the filmmaker best known for his Valentines to New York, Woody Allen, is not participant.

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75

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

These tales are as highly designed as fashion layouts. But they're as relaxing to thumb through as those NYT Magazine trend pieces.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Look at the cast and credits to form an idea of the directors and actors at work here. By its nature, New York, I Love You can't add up. It remains the sum of its parts. If one isn't working for you, wait a few minutes, here comes another one. New Yorkers, I love you.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

The film is an omnibus ride through Brighton Beach, Central Park, the West Village, and Tribeca.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

Gamely tries to capture a vast, twinkling cityscape with not one love story - but 11 little ones, a few of them overlapping.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

All of the participating directors – save Balsmeyer and actor Natalie Portman – are known for features. So part of the interest is seeing how the short form puts their strengths, weaknesses, thematic interests or styles into sharp focus.

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70

Washington Post Philip Kennicott

A light but enjoyable souffle of erotic vignettes.

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70

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

The project is lush and seductive as a whole, though some segments are especially vibrant.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Erica Abeel

Most of these linked "shorts" succeed remarkably in nailing the serendipitous flavor of love, New York-style.

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63

USA Today Claudia Puig

If you're not a stickler for consistency, this is an effective pastiche and tribute to one of the world's most enticing cities.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Provides some compensatory satisfactions, thanks mostly to the actors, as they make the most of a series of pencil sketches.

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63

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams

Neither a comprehensive guide nor consistently good, but because the theme is romance, most of these small bites of the Big Apple are easy to digest.

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60

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Where "Paris" was the ingénue, fresh-faced and surprising, "New York" needed to come in with the confidence of a more practiced hand, and it never quite manages that. Better to think of it as a day trip rather than an actual film, just a brief, mostly delightful excursion into the city.

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50

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

New York, I Love You wants us to know that the city is a sexy, romantic, thrillingly random place where anything can go down. Sadly, two of those things are your eyelids.

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50

Village Voice Michelle Orange

As with its predecessor, "Paris je t'aime," there are hits and misses.

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50

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The result, as is always the case with short story collections, is a mixed bag, although unlike "Paris Je T'Aime," the duds outnumber the winners this time.

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42

The Onion (A.V. Club) Sam Adams

The segments don’t form anything like a coherent whole, but they aren’t distinctive enough to clash meaningfully with each other, either.

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42

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Doesn't evoke New York and its vignettes are trite – with one exception, a touching sequence directed by Mira Nair with Natalie Portman as a Hasidic bride and Irrfan Khan as a Jain diamond merchant.

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40

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Short to short, it’s a Russian roulette.

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40

The New York Times A.O. Scott

The pieces of New York, I Love You make up a parallel city that no one would want to live in, much less visit.

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40

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Anyone who actually adores New York is unlikely to appreciate this disappointingly bland collection of shorts, which might as well have been called "Madrid, Te Amo" or "Cincinnati, You're the Best."

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40

Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf

Cutesy and generic, New York, I Love You is almost colossally inept at capturing five-boroughs flavor.

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40

Variety Jay Weissberg

The results are, well, formulaic, hobbled by weak dialogue and absent any sense of texture.

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40

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

What's remarkable here is the consistency of the mediocrity.

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25

NPR Scott Tobias

Despite Benhiby's best efforts to create one from many, the only thing the roughly 10-minute segments in New York, I Love You have in common are a general air of indifference.

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

When New York, I Love You was previewed in Toronto a year ago, there were two additional segments that have since been cut. So you'll have to wait for the DVD to see just how bad Scarlett Johansson's directing debut is.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

eggy g gave it a5:
A mixed bag of short movie with bland overall after taste. NY portrayal is just too gloomy and unromantic. Even standard vampire movie is mostly more romantic than this film.

Steven J gave it a4:
There is nothing less funny than trying to be funny. There is nothing less poignant than trying to be poignant. This movie feels like a film school attempt to be comedic and thought-provoking, but fails on both fronts. You don't laugh and you don't reflect. It also fails to tell the truth about love, about New York, about life. Most, although not all, of the lives and loves portrayed in this film are shallow, driven by sex rather than commitment, and self-absorbed rather than sacrificial. If the writing were better, the interweaving of the stories better, it might have at least held together as a montage film. As is, however, it's not worth the time.

teenager review gave it a10:
The actors and dicectors are great. in every story there are 2 great actors who are in a relationship, in love, or just have a moment. every thing here is great.

Ata gave it a1:
Glad to see barely 2 boroughs depicted in this film. This movie is so contrived. It's like an 11-car Crash.

A E gave it a5:
I really wanted to like this film and the city it celebrates more than I did. Though there are many tender human moments, the overwhelming feeling saturating the film is an oppressive isolation wherein the millions in their midst ironically make connections exponentially more difficult. It is a relief, then, to see A.O. Scott say the film makes NYC "a parallel city that no one would want to live in, much less visit.” I understand why one could justify interlacing some of the stories and not others, but in the end, it feel less cohesive than had each story stood on its own.

Jan Y gave it a10:
Come on, let’s not pretend that New York is simply a place for Wall Street New Yorkers, or where shoppers spend money in fancy Park Avenue stores, or move in and out of financial institutions, or a city of Broadway theaters, museums, the Rockefeller Center, and all those tourist landmarks, marketed by NY travel guides, to lure the wide-eyed, giddy-headed and ignorant tourists who enter and leave NY, probably clueless to certain aspects that’s part and puzzle of New York life! How many non-New Yorkers that there is the 47th Street Diamond District where one can meet Hasidic workers? How many fools have simply paid the price tagged to items in ethnic shops without bargaining down the price? Or walk from Chinatown toward Williamsburg Bridge and observe the Hasidic Community with their traditional practices. Just visit Algonquin Hotel and you’d be bound to find several celebrities living there to remind you of Julie Christie’s Isabelle. How many of these fading celebrities regard their lives have reached an end, when all they need to do is to take a serious look at the lowly-paid servers, struggling to make ends meet. Jam yourself with the evening crowds along Avenue of the Americas with its side-street vendors and fell lucky if you’re not a victim of pickpockets. And how many do realize that some NY neighborhoods are having problems with prostitution and solicitation? Yes, the filmmakers are bold enough to expose the challenges New Yorkers know and face. And yes, despite the existence of challenges and seemingly unbecoming ways and attidudes of some, New Yorkers still love their New York. And these stories do bring a reality that true New Yorkers, who love New York, are not wimps, but tough survivors who understand that New York is simplynot a fantasy land of all that glitters!

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