2 Days in New York 2012

Critics score:
65 / 100

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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: At least we'll always have 2 Days in Paris. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: The film, which is about a chaotic 48 hours in Marion's life, succumbs to the chaos it depicts, and so undermines its best intentions. It is, all in all, a likable mess. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: [Delpy] and Rock, in the midst of free-flying French chaos, find a sweet chemistry together ... Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Without so much as a wink, it presents the French as racist, stinky, crude, self-absorbed, and obnoxious. It isn't a culture-clash comedy, so much as culture character assassination. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Chatty, neurotic, maddeningly messy, often very funny, "New York" spins in a lunatic orbit of its own. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The comedy works some of the time; the pathos, more so. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The laughs come fast and breezy, just as Delpy intends. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's a pleasure to meet up again with Marion, the distractible, acerbic, New York-based French photographer played once more by Julie Delpy in 2 Days in New York. Read more

Amanda Mae Meyncke, Film.com: While it's nowhere near a perfect film, 2 Days in New York is worth seeing, not only for the comedy but also for the realism of the smaller moments. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A tantalizing Franco-American stew for audiences with a taste for bawdy humor and nutty characters. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: "2 Days in Paris" is as self-assured as it is slight, a deliberate diversion whose winsome charms never run dry. Read more

Miami Herald: Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Much of the alleged humor is based on French-English language gags, or cultural differences or continental mores vs. the priggishness of Americans, but it's all more irritating than funny. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: About six hours of those "2 Days in New York" don't work at all. And, coming as they do at the end, they tend to deflate the charm of the trip. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, NPR: The screenplay - which was written by Delpy, Landeau and Nahon - has a jittery kind of honesty about it, which Rock and Delpy sometimes push to its limits. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Delpy and Rock click so well together that we'd much rather hang out at home with them, instead of racing around the city with sitcommish supporting characters. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Delpy's good at keeping Marion's complaints sharp and funny, rather than wan and whiny. Even so, the movie's a bumpy ride as her good farcical instincts vie with the yen for cheap laughs. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Finds its comedy in the familiar annoyances of urban life (a contentious neighbor, random acts of vandalism), in the conflict between parents and siblings, but also in bigger, kookier, existential quandaries. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The comedy in 2 Days in New York varies from uneven to failed. A lot of it isn't funny and some of what is, is overused. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Julie Delpy has particularly impressed me over the years. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Julie Delpy is boundlessly appealing. And Chris Rock is acerbic fun. But the frenzied cross-cultural gags take the piss out of the real subject: how blood ties can turn love into a battlefield. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's extremely funny, one of the funniest films of 2012, with a particularly winning style - far-fetched, extreme and nonstop. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: 2 Days in New York plays like 2 years in Attica. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: It's time for Delpy to leave Marion in New York for good and head back to Paris. Besides, the sausage is better there. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: Delpy has a sharp eye for cross-cultural comic clangers. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Phrases are misunderstood! Tolerance for Euro-libertine ways are tested! Tame encounters turn into terrifying humiliations, because the French are, like, so crazy! Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A scattershot culture-clash comedy that goes down like yesterday's foie gras. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Delpy's project of stripping the makeup from her charismatic screen persona extends, unfortunately, to a general slovenliness of technique. Read more

Jess Righthand, Washington Post: A manic and funny, if ultimately frustrating, sequel. Read more