2 Days in Paris

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Audacious as it is, the movie is also a little scary.

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.

Empire Liz Beardsworth

Quirky, fresh and sharply intelligent. A promising debut for director Delpy, both thought-provoking and painfully funny.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The movie doesn't add up to much, but it's an effervescent expression of an odd brute-hummingbird sensibility.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Amusingly raunchy.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A smart film with an edge to it.

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).

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Perhaps the most promising thing in 2 Days in Paris is that Delpy shows that she can direct herself.

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.

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.

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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

For all the verbal jokery, it's more tragedy than farce.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Provides a smart and funny respite from most of what passes for romantic comedy these days.

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.

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.

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.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

By accident or design the film is seriously unbalanced.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The movie doesn't offer enough to make it interesting or even diverting.

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.