| 90 |
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Audacious as it is, the movie is also a little scary.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
2 Days in Paris is pure Julie Delpy, figuratively and otherwise. Since first becoming known to American audiences in the early '90s, she's revealed herself to be an artist of sundry and unexpected talents, with a distinctive voice and point of view.
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| 80 |
Empire
Liz Beardsworth
Quirky, fresh and sharply intelligent. A promising debut for director Delpy, both thought-provoking and painfully funny.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie doesn't add up to much, but it's an effervescent expression of an odd brute-hummingbird sensibility.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Amusingly raunchy.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A smart film with an edge to it.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
The bickering lovers are generally likable, as are her quintessentially and hilariously Gallic parents (played by Delpy's real mom and dad).
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Perhaps the most promising thing in 2 Days in Paris is that Delpy shows that she can direct herself.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Much of the nattery byplay seems improvised, and the results are very hit and miss – inspired contretemps alternate with gabfests that seem to go on forever.
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| 75 |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Weighty and downbeat though that sounds, Delpy's film is delightfully light, especially when it's parsing the infinite variety of horrible French cabbies.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Delpy wrote the dialogue that gives the film its forward thrust, and "2 Days" is a wonderful first feature.
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| 75 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
For all the verbal jokery, it's more tragedy than farce.
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| 70 |
Time
Richard Schickel
This anti romantic and anti-comic -- it's not as funny as Delpy seems to think it is -- movie may appeal to the dark side of your immune system.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Delpy's writing is sharply observed and often hilarious, and her own performance as the perennially enraged Marion -- whom she says was inspired by Robert De Niro's Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" -- is one of her most memorable.
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| 70 |
Slate
Dana Stevens
2 Days in Paris doesn't quite meet the "Before Sunset" standard of intricate, subtle dialogue and sharp psychological insight--then again, neither do many movies this side of Eric Rohmer. That this one is even bearable is a surprise; that it's occasionally insightful and hilarious is a treat.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
Delpy shows Linklater's influence in her willingness to let actors work and walk at length, and she has an unusually playful style for an actor turned filmmaker.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There is enough "hit" material to make this fun. Delpy is such an infectiously appealing personality, she almost wills this movie to work.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Among the many offhand virtues of Julie Delpy's first feature as solo writer-director is the fact that she's as attentive to French foibles as American ones.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Before the film flails, like a balloon losing air into a terrible finale, it has the audacity to lay siege to just about every xenophobic bias possible. No one -- or country -- is safe in this comedy and for that alone it's admirable.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Provides a smart and funny respite from most of what passes for romantic comedy these days.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Delpy wrote and directed this study of a relationship heading (it would seem) for the rocks. She stages it with a funny and diverting improv-y flow.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Delpy is clearly a gifted writer, especially of comic dialogue. But she and Goldberg don't quite work as an engaging pair.
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| 63 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
Although she lets her flair for creating funny, sharply written, quirky scenes consume her feature directorial debut, her use of family, friends and even an ex (Goldberg) in 2 Days In Paris, gives the film a wonderfully natural, comfy feel.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
By accident or design the film is seriously unbalanced.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The movie is just a situation salad, at least until the end, when things start to pull together a bit.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Here's all you really need to know in order to determine whether Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris is something you need to experience for yourself: Her blond hair is often all frizz, and she prefers glasses with a big black frame. She's Mia AND Woody.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Delpy's manic energy shoots through this meet-the-parents comedy like electroshock, resulting in a movie that is as acutely painful as it is acutely funny.
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| 60 |
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The movie should be seen with a large, responsive audience--the better to live with it in the moment instead of worrying about where it’s going.
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| 50 |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The movie doesn't offer enough to make it interesting or even diverting.
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| 40 |
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Anyone hoping that 2 Days in Paris will revisit such peppy romance (“Annie Hall”), however, will be frustrated. There is an extra rawness here, a determination to confront and annoy.
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