42
Vincente Amorim weaves each short together with lots of sweeping panoramas of the city, and the end result feels less like a collection of love stories and more like a bland tourism ad.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
30
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Tourism is what it has to sell.
38
RogerEbert.com by Christy Lemire
Rio, I Love You feels like little more than an extended tourism promotion video.
12
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
The hygienization of Rio into what at times looks like a soulless Southern California town is so scandalous it feels like a spoof of the Cities of Love series.
25
Some of these shorts are worth the ten or so minutes they take, but none of them justify wasting time on Rio, I Love You.
42
The A.V. Club by Jesse Hassenger
Rio offers the uncomfortable spectacle of 10 different filmmakers mostly failing to produce a sense of place that can be sustained over 10 minutes, much less multiple senses of place that can be stitched into an interesting patchwork.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
The only people sure to love this concoction are those working for Rio's tourism bureau.
30
Village Voice by Kenji Fujishima
Even more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love" franchise might leave viewers wondering whether these needed to be set in Rio de Janeiro at all.
37
There are more than 6 million potential love stories in Rio de Janeiro. Unfortunately, none of the 10 that have been assembled in the anthology film Rio, I Love You is any good.
40
The bulk of these stories just aren’t very engaging — or even good.