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Midnight in Paris is a loving embrace of the city, of art and of life itself.
Our hero has found his groove among the Lost Generation and, for us, there's some amusement to be had in sharing Gil's thrills -- it's like stepping into a Classic Comics version of A Moveable Feast.
Midnight in Paris is charming and clever, at times wickedly astute and hopeful.
There is breezy comedy to be made of a YouTube-age writer meeting the icons and idols of a bygone, classical era, but Allen goes deeper, expanding on his time-travel device to make unexpected and unexpectedly generous observations.
Woody Allen attracts promising players and does nothing with them.
I find this upfront fantasy to be his funniest, most agreeable comedy in years.
Sadly, this movie made me want to go back in time to a glorious period in New York City in the 1970s and '80s when a filmmaker named Woody Allen ruled the movie world.
Midnight in Paris finds exactly the right groove for its story and stays there. It's a winner.
A few rough patches aside, I found Midnight in Paris to be a delight
"Midnight in Paris," a parable about romanticism and nostalgia, recalls Early Owen as much as Early Woody.
This is [Allen's] most satisfying film in decades, a film with wit and ideas that is primarily about romanticism, illusion, and nostalgia.
What an enchanting movie - almost as enchanting as its location.
As befits Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris. is chock-full of cultural homages: Hemingway and Stein are just a small sample of the legends Allen parades onscreen.
A trifle filled with nostalgia and fantasy touristy fare.
Go in blind, and let it gobsmack you into euphoria.
A beautiful little jewel of a movie, and I'm thrilled to realize that Woody Allen still has films this good inside of him.
Literate and funny, light-hearted yet frequently eloquent
In the end it's about seeing through the illusion of nostalgia and yet not being disillusioned ? about cherishing the past, while living in the present.
Allen in top form with Midnight in Paris.
Woody Allen's most entertaining comedy in years...
Ao abordar a insatisfa??o do protagonista com o presente em fun??o de seu romantismo irrecuper?vel, o veterano diretor garante o sucesso tem?tico de Meia-Noite em Paris.
'Midnight in Paris' is rewarding if not fully satisfying and indicates that, now closer to 80 than 70, the writer-director has found peace with life as he finds it.
This isn't a good Woody Allen movie. No, this is one of the great Woody Allen films.
Let's face it, Woody Allen makes some bad movies or at least only slightly entertaining movies. He might have been great in the past but that day has long gone.
Allen may be a fatalist, as he often claims, but this film is whimsical and romantic-a divertissement that recalls one of his most endearing and original comedies, The Purple Rose of Cairo...
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