The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.
Pleasant enough.
Although To Rome With Love may not be ‘major’ Allen, it contains treats aplenty.
More madness in the midday sun than Midnight In Paris. Baldwin, Cruz and Davis shine in a farce that overstretches itself into bellylaugh hits, but also some satirical misses.
Pleasant if unremarkable.
As Allen enters his late 70s he shows little sign of slowing down, which is highly admirable. But there is no contradiction in admiring the man’s work ethic while taking issue with the work itself, and this really is a galumphing dud.
Loyal Allen fans will know the minute-by-minute tension of watching his recent movies: the relief of registering a successful gag, and the occasional wash of melancholy at the recurring thought that one day there will be no more new Woody Allen movies.
[It] isn’t as charming or as funny as last year’s surprise box office hit Midnight in Paris, but it has interesting ideas that sustain it through some of the more overblown and cringeworthy cultural stereotyping.
None of the storylines are very funny or have any notable bearing on one another.
How Allen will bring these stories together is a question that nags away. The answer: he doesn't.
This one really isn’t very funny, with an added smugness making it a disappointing follow-up to his Parisian adventure.
It's like being in boring old Heaven when you thought you had won a ticket to exciting, seriocomical Purgatory.
If you liked Allen's recent postcard movies, you're unlikely to object to this one, a film as innocuously sugary as the complimentary limoncello after your trattoria set menu.
I greatly enjoyed this film. Seeing it so soon after Robert Weide's exhilarating two-hour documentary on Allen, I'm feeling generously disposed towards Woody and full of gratitude for the abundant pleasure he's given us over the past 50 years.
Four trivial stories, forced laughs: don’t expect much more from Allen’s latest postcard from Europe.
The film’s litany of bad ideas overshadows any of its thematic concerns.
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