A Rainy Day in New York
MPI Media Group | Release Date: October 9, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
10
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Screen DailyLisa NesselsonAug 29, 2019
Anyone shunning Woody Allen’s artistic output will be depriving themselves of a bittersweet comedy peppered with splendid performances if they give A Rainy Day In New York a pass. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJan 2, 2020
The film’s skittishness is particularly maddening considering that Woody Allen has nothing to artistically to prove. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleJun 11, 2020
Not great, not hilarious, but not terrible or awful either. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 9, 2020
Even a warmed-over, behind-the-times Woody Allen script is going to contain some choice one-liners, and this is a superb cast that knows how to put the right spin on clever dialogue — even when they’re playing thinly drawn characters in a dated and unnecessary story. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 8, 2020
With A Rainy Day in New York, Allen is spinning his wheels – revisiting familiar themes and ideas from other, earlier films that were presented to far better effect the first time around. Read full review
50
IndieWireBen CrollSep 18, 2019
For all its stodgy touches, the film itself is like a cast-in-amber relic of the not-so-distant past. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerAug 30, 2019
Merely a watchable rehashing of his preferential themes and plot points, set in a present-day Manhattan so nostalgic and unreal it might as well be a period piece. Read full review
45
PolygonJesse HassengerOct 23, 2020
Chalamet and Fanning do okay in Rainy Day, but Selena Gomez is the one who shows surprising facility with tart-tongued romance. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenOct 8, 2020
As with even the worst of Allen’s films, there is just enough to satiate fans and make the whole thing seem maybe, possibly worth the effort. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansJun 11, 2020
Characters and storylines appear to have been chosen at random by a Woody Allen meme generator. Read full review
40
EmpireIan FreerJun 5, 2020
A Rainy Day In New York hits all of Allen’s touchstones, has a few good one-liners and is well played, but it sorely lacks the wit, vitality and veracity of his ’70s/’80s heyday. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 4, 2020
This is like an over-chewed piece of gum: flavourless. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzNov 10, 2020
The “new” film is firmly an artifact of the past. More specifically the imaginary era of Gotham that Allen has become a permanently unstuck-in-time guest of since "Annie Hall." Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiOct 9, 2020
This is Allen’s 48th movie (a 49th, “Rifkin’s Festival,” premiered last month) and while he has certainly made worse films than this one during that time, rarely has he come up with something as utterly inconsequential as this collection of rehashed themes, characters, and punchlines. Read full review
33
The Film StageJared MobarakOct 13, 2020
I’m sure Allen apologists will say that A Rainy Day in New York was built as a way of self-ridicule with Gatsby’s incredulity towards women always finding older men attractive and filmmakers preying upon ingénues, but nothing in the text suggests that it is. Read full review
30
VarietyJessica KiangAug 30, 2019
It is a retread of territory Allen has extensively covered before, but while the same can be said about almost all of his late-career work, seldom have the gears ground quite so loudly, and never before has the writing felt this chronically out-of-phase with the era it depicts. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 10, 2020
The appeal of A Rainy Day in New York, to the extent it has any, is nostalgia. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 7, 2020
This is a bad movie, with maybe two good jokes and some of Allen’s clunkiest direction. Read full review
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