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75Look 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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75The film is an omnibus ride through Brighton Beach, Central Park, the West Village, and Tribeca.
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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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75Oddly, the filmmaker best known for his Valentines to New York, Woody Allen, is not participant.
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75All 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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75These 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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Most of these linked "shorts" succeed remarkably in nailing the serendipitous flavor of love, New York-style.
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70A light but enjoyable souffle of erotic vignettes.
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70The project is lush and seductive as a whole, though some segments are especially vibrant.
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63Provides some compensatory satisfactions, thanks mostly to the actors, as they make the most of a series of pencil sketches.
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63If 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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63Neither 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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60Where "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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50The 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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50New 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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As with its predecessor, "Paris je t'aime," there are hits and misses.
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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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42Doesn'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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40Anyone 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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40Cutesy and generic, New York, I Love You is almost colossally inept at capturing five-boroughs flavor.
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40Short to short, it's a Russian roulette.
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40The 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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40The results are, well, formulaic, hobbled by weak dialogue and absent any sense of texture.
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40What's remarkable here is the consistency of the mediocrity.
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25Despite 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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25When 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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