Décalage horaire 2002

Critics score:
56 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The movie equivalent of one of those paperbacks bought to pass the time when your own flight has been delayed: It's distracting enough to keep your mind off the fantasy of throttling someone without adding any real weight to your carry-ons. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A movie so thin it borders on nonexistence. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... succinct, smart and sweet. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Slender but surprisingly smart and pleasing. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A peppy romantic trifle from France that rises above the mundane on the strength of its beautifully detailed lead performances. Read more

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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: There isn't a moment you won't see coming a kilometer away. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Rose gives as good as she gets, and one of the film's exceedingly modest pleasures is watching how the director rescues this woman from stereotype and Felix's (and our) prejudice. Read more

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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's a pleasure to encounter a confectionary love story in which a man and woman of age and experience discover feelings that youth, more and more, has a patent on in Hollywood. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: An unabashed chick flick that guys can enjoy. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Excellent fluff francais, leavened with charm, wit and smart observation about the way we love now. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Director Daniele Thompson and her son/ co-screenwriter Christopher Thompson have trouble finding a comfortable balance between Hollywood homage and anti-Hollywood (as in French-intimate) comedy. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Who knew that Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno could be unlikable? Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Director Thompson and her two A-list stars take a grand holiday from their usual seriousness, exploring all of the possibilities offered by this situation with charm and style. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A talky French romantic comedy that fails to trade in on the innate charisma of its two leads, Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Jet Lag is sort of a grown-up version of Before Sunrise... The difference between the two films is sort of depressing. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Jet Lag is a time-waster that might be diversionary on a dull cross-Atlantic flight -- but only in the absence of alternatives. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The script is definitely mediocrity mixed with complication. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: All the usual meet-cute tropes are trotted out -- room service hassles, bed-sharing dilemmas -- but Reno and Binoche make a fine pair and the Parisian setting somehow makes it all seem fresher. Read more

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Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's got a subtext but not a subplot. Read more