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| VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (2008) - R
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by LEW IRWIN
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 Critics keep falling in and out of love with Woody Allen. They''re back in love with him again with Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times cheers, "This is the genuine comeback, a romantic comedy that''s a major summer entertainment with serious underpinnings." Rafer Guzmán in Newsday calls the film a "minor masterpiece .. a seemingly effortless but deeply meaningful film." Claudia Puig in USA Today positively waxes rhapsodic: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona is as exhilarating, captivating and enjoyable as a summer romance in an exotic city." Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun calls it "blissfully entertaining." But Allen continues to irritate some critics who still wish he would return to his once endearing comedy schtick. Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times writes that "despite promising elements, Vicky Cristina Barcelona "is too intent on being taken seriously to be more than mildly diverting. Allen said in interviews that this was a film about relationships, not a comedy, and he was not being falsely modest. ... [It] has neither the humor nor the insights to captivate." |
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