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In Paris
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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    88
    Where Dans Paris truly pops, besides its spot-on leads or the slick curation of its fashions and locales, are in its mood-mixing musical moments.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    83
    Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    80
    Picks up where the early François Truffaut and his comrades-in-cinema left off -- with a playful, liberatory style, and a song (actually, a few) in his heart and on his actors' lips.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    75
    Dans Paris is a cohesive, albeit sometimes creepy, fabric of disparate modes and colors.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    75
    Dans Paris provides a brooding, poetic echo - an after-dinner mint to a lasting meal.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    70
    Dans Paris makes the city seem like the ideal place to be clinically depressed.
  7. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    There's a vivid comedy to this family's emotional state of siege, an easy confidence to Honoré's camerawork, and plenty of beautiful bodies.
  8. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Julia Wallace
    70
    Christophe Honoré's Dans Paris is both a floppy, joyful tribute to the French New Wave and an inspired retelling of "Franny and Zooey."
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jay Weissberg
    70
    Inside Paris is that rarity, a genuinely honest, unpretentious and delightful, small film, alternately sober and effervescent, steering clear of either heavy-going philosophizing or dreaded whimsy.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    50
    Make a movie about depressed people, and what do you get? A depressing movie.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    This is a film for hardcore film fans and Francophiles. Everyone else may find little to sustain them beyond the pastiche and shots of Paris.
  12. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    50
    Dans Paris will delight aficionados familiar with its myriad references, and there's no denying the appeal of Duris and Garrel. But once the source of the boys' primal wound is revealed, the whole enterprise comes to feel as mechanical as the Bon Marche window display that serves as one of the film's plot points.
  13. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    50
    Christophe Honoré collaborated with Anne-Sophie Birot on the script of her excellent "Girls Can't Swim," but left to his own devices, he seems like a relatively dull cousin of Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life . . . or How I Got Into an Argument).
  14. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    40
    Cliché, or experiment with cliché? Really, it's not worth sticking around to find out, since the action mostly involves the monotonous Romain Duris standing around in his underpants or sitting on the toilet banging on about why love has fled.
  15. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    40
    Moody, mannered and supremely irritating, Christophe Honoré's Dans Paris plays like a pastiche of French cinema clichés through the ages.
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