Daily Plastic: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Trailer . IMDB	To Allen's credit, this rather preposterous setup comes off almost naturally.... the actors are so strong and Barcelona so gorgeous that I found myself swept along for the ride. J. Robert Parks Daily Plastic	I for one found something oddly elating in the movie's assurance that it is better to have made passionate love and maybe almost died at the hands of a jealous mistress than never to have loved at all. Scott Foundas LA Weekly Still As lively and entertaining as Vicky Cristina Barcelona is, I wonder what Allen could do with characters who aren't so distant from him — who acknowledge both their sexual hunger and their advancing age. David Edelstein New York Magazine Call it autopilot, call it barrel scraping, but I believe he's still really baffled about various unsolvable mysteries of human nature. Karina Longworth SpoutBlog What else is there to say about Vicky Cristina Barcelona or Pan-Seared Misogyny in Hot-Blooded Balsamic Mediterranean Reduction that hasn't already been said about nearly every other shoddy film Allen has made this decade, from the director's absolutely contemptible views of female behavior to the 10-dollar words that he scarily jams into the mouths of his characters? Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Well!

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