60
Two for the Road is a good try; it's often pretty and sometimes funny; one wishes it well, one wishes it were better.
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What are critics saying?
60
The New York Times by Bosley Crowther
There are some precious moments of romantic charm in this bitter account of domestic discord amid surroundings that should inspire nothing but delight. And so one must seize upon them for the entertainment that is to be had, and endure the tedium of much of the picture.
100
Arguably Stanley Donen's masterpiece, and undoubtedly one of the most stylistically influential films of the 60s.
63
As for the two leads, they have charm to spare, and it’s startling to see Hepburn bring bitterness to bear on her trademark wit, but the relationship and all its foibles still feel prescribed by the overall structure, not borne of real life.
83
The film's surface is made up of familiar '60s romantic-comedy elements, from Hepburn's haute wardrobe to the Henry Mancini score to the breezy interaction between the stars. They banter, bicker, and make up with witty repartee. It's what movie love is supposed to look like, which makes it all the more heartbreaking to know that it's destined to sour.
100
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Certainly one of the very best films in each of Donen and Hepburn's careers, this devastatingly lovely remnant of Hollywood's anything-goes Sixties (with a script by Frederic Raphael) tells the story of a marriage by showing a couple over the course of successive trips to the south of France.
60
Sharply scripted with a melancholic charm.
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A Hollywood-style romance between beautiful people, and an honest story about recognizable human beings.