20
This update-cum-ripoff might be aiming for witty and romantic, but it’s mostly a hollow, rambling effort leavened with some stargazing.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
30
Shallow, witless but pretty enough French ode to Woody Allen.
40
By itself, this would just be one of those workmanlike relationship films the French turn out by the yard; but all the Allen stuff throws its mediocrity into sharp relief.
50
New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme
There’s a good cinephile heart beating under this fluffy story. But Lellouche, in making her homage to Allen, left out one of his essential qualities: bite. Paris-Manhattan drifts by and never leaves a single toothmark.
30
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Were it not for the charming Patrick Bruel as a no-nonsense security expert and Alice’s unlikely suitor, this spun-sugar concoction would be well nigh unwatchable.
40
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Pretty, occasionally witty and not believable for a moment, Sophie Lellouche's Paris-Manhattan is suffused with fannish love for Woody Allen's films but hardly lives up to their legacy.
75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
Paris-Manhattan is an amusing little nothing of a movie built around the wit and wisdom of Woody Allen.
20
Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
The conceit grows more strained, its Talmudic potential unrealized, while the comedy never rises above bleh.
40
Sophie Lellouche’s slick debut is chock-full of Woody-com quotes and references, yet it remains an inconsequential, undernourished trifle that does sod-all with its potential.