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TV Guide
Ken Fox
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.
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| 83 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Unlike Salvadori's previous comedy, 2003's "Après Vous," Priceless is less preposterous, and more grounded in character.
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| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
It's a fun and attractive ride.
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| 80 |
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
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.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
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.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
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.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
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.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Salvadori's homage is a bittersweet, funny, sporadically charming and consistently entertaining love story between two "kept" people.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
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.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
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.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Dirty, kinda-rotten scoundrels Elmaleh and Tautou make an engaging pair.
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| 70 |
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
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.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov
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.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
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.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Priceless is a bauble - an art-house diamond made of paste that somehow still gives you good glimmer for the money.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.
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| 50 |
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Priceless provides lightweight, predictable entertainment that will make you yearn for the Tatou of yesteryear.
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