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Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Stars Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno give Jet Lag everything they've got. Too bad the movie doesn't better reward their effort.
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Stays resolutely grounded thanks to miscasting of Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno as the leads and a script that contrarily breaks every rule of the genre.
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Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Rather wonderful to sit through. It's fluff with flavor. And a cell phone.
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
For those who have a penchant for talky subtitled romantic comedies, this one has its charms, but is probably more worth seeking out once it's on video than during its (probably short) theatrical life.
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Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones
Jet Lag's romantic fluffery is somewhat beneath these old pros, but they make its meet-cute scenario work, mostly -– and most especially when crusty, grumpy, grizzled Jean Reno announces he's "totally in love."
40
The writerly restraint that confines them to the airport is admirable, though the fairy-tale ending in Acapulco seems like a throwaway.
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Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
There are frothy romantic comedies and then there is Jet Lag, a movie so thin it borders on nonexistence.
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The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
This French pastry, directed by Danièle Thompson, who wrote it with her son Christopher, is a meet-cute comedy in excelsis. Or very near excelsis.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A peppy romantic trifle from France that rises above the mundane on the strength of its beautifully detailed lead performances.
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Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
It's got a subtext but not a subplot.