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72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    The lovely Audrey Tautou and sad-eyed Gad Elmaleh are perfectly cast as a gold digger and the poor sap who loves her, but the real star of Pierre Salvadori's larky, Lubitsch-esque farce is France's impossibly chic Cote d'Azure.
  2. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    83
    It's a fun and attractive ride.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    83
    Unlike Salvadori's previous comedy, 2003's "Après Vous," Priceless is less preposterous, and more grounded in character.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    80
    A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, or so the saying goes, but the unadulterated joy Irène takes in throwing open the closet door to show Jean how this gold digging is done is positively infectious.
  5. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joanne Kaufman
    80
    Calls to mind Lubitsch's "Trouble in Paradise" and beguiles all the way from the parade of umbrellas decorating the opening titles to the closing credits.
  6. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    Tautou is a delight, as always, using her bubbly personality to comic advantage. And Elmaleh makes for a sort of poor man's Buster Keaton, perpetually stressed but refusing to surrender, no matter how much damage he sustains to himself or his wallet.
  7. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    78
    Priceless is a supremely satisfying confection – a French romantic comedy of the sort that ends with you standing outside the theatre with a dopey grin on your face.
  8. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    The fetching comedy Priceless"("Hors de Prix") weighs about as much as its star, Audrey Tautou, but like Tautou's pleasingly craven heroine it knows exactly what it's doing.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    75
    Dirty, kinda-rotten scoundrels Elmaleh and Tautou make an engaging pair.
  10. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    Stop laughing long enough, and you'll see that it's a picture about compromised lives and love for sale. But no one who watches Priceless will stop laughing for that long.
  11. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    75
    The comedy, which verges on farce from time to time, also has the smilingly cynical approach to romance that we identify with the French.
  12. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    Salvadori's homage is a bittersweet, funny, sporadically charming and consistently entertaining love story between two "kept" people.
  13. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    75
    Tautou's kind of talent: priceless.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Vadim Rizov
    70
    Priceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it develops into something considerably more interesting.
  15. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lisa Nesselson
    70
    Co-scripter/helmer Pierre Salvadori serves up an enjoyable riff on genuine romance versus the pay-as-you-go variety, in crowd-pleasing, exportable picture.
  16. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    70
    The outcome is never much in doubt, but Salvadori artfully choreographs the endless table turning, and the Moroccan-born Elmaleh capitalizes on his striking resemblance to Buster Keaton with a similarly comic composure.
  17. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    63
    Priceless is a bauble - an art-house diamond made of paste that somehow still gives you good glimmer for the money.
  18. Empire
    Reviewed by: Rosamund Witcher
    60
    A farcical romp but, being French, it's hugely glamorous and dripping with style.
  19. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    The movie is an amusing ball of fluff that refuses to judge its characters' amoral high jinks. Winking at the vanity of wealthy voluptuaries and hustlers playing games of tainted love, it heaves a sigh and says welcome to the human comedy.
  20. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    50
    Priceless provides lightweight, predictable entertainment that will make you yearn for the Tatou of yesteryear.
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7.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. SM
    10
    Absolutely worth to watch. Actings are excellent. Fantastic movie.
  2. PaulS.
    1
    If you enjoy movies about unlikeable frenchies forming amoral relationships and doing boring, unfunny things - this is your film. Alternately, if you found Tatou simply too sweet in Amelie, watch this immediately afterwards as an antidote.… Full Review »
  3. ChadS.
    9
    The gold digger forgets the rules of the game. Love may be priceless, but the price you pay for love is your life. Nevertheless, the gold digger relents, the gold digger runs, to undo the damage she abetted when she taught a dopey bartender the ways of a kept man. Trouble is, her pupil Jean(Gad Elmaleh) becomes so practiced, he's practically a lothario when she bangs on the door of his hotel room. Jean develops a taste for the good life at the same time that the good life loses its flavor for Irene(Audrey Tautou). That's why she runs. Irene needs to stop Jean before he loses his scruples. Tone, obviously, is everything for a film like "Hors de prix", in which its two leads behave badly. It's a delicate matter when Jean dumps his benefactor. He's not the same man we were rooting for in the middle of the movie, when the lowly bartender was wooing Irene, by allowing himself to be wooed by money. Their courtship is based on being co-conspirators. Now they have something in common. Now Irene starts to respect Jean. "Hors de prix" tries to pretend otherwise, but the finished product resembles a cad. Madeleine(Marie-Christine Adam) deserved better, even Agnes(Annelise Hesme), who like Irene, would serve herself on a silver platter to the highest bidder. By the end of "Hors de prix", the tables have turned. Arguably, Irene now loves Jean more than Jean loves Irene. But that's the French for you; a wicked lot, when it comes to love. American romantic comedies are never this complicated, never this amoral, or hillarious.… Full Review »
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