Sidewalks of New York Critic Reviews

The chatty, romantic roundelay takes a lighthearted look at the misadventures of six in the city.Read the full review

The film's flaws seem unimportant, and it passes the big test, making you want to find out what happens to these characters, even when what does happen is predictable.Read the full review

The movie is funny without being hilarious, touching but not tearful, and articulate in the way that Burns is articulate, by nibbling earnestly around an idea as if afraid that the core has seeds.Read the full review

The time is right for a breezy, captivating New York romantic comedy. Sidewalks of New York is not an especially good movie, but it will do.Read the full review

It's a veritable Greek chorus of wry therapeutic chatter, the touchy-feely pensées skittering over the stock dualities of adultery and fidelity, lust and devotion, narcissism and intimacy, blah, blah, blah.Read the full review

Those who teach public speaking sometimes advocate telling your audience what you're going to tell them, then actually telling them, then telling them what you've told them. Sidewalks reproves this isn't a wise path for movies.Read the full review

Burns has a hard time finding a central idea, some overall point that isn't borrowed or trite. Or both.Read the full review

Despite a synthetic optimism in the script, the movie's pervasive bleakness is relieved only by some bright performances.Read the full review

The assumption among many when the movie was postponed was that Paramount Classics felt New Yorkers weren't emotionally equipped for something bright or frothy or vivacious. They needn't have been concerned.Read the full review