Vicky Cristina Barcelona Critic Reviews

The film's freedom and control, its inspiration and focus, announce it as the work of a confident and mature artist.Read the full review

As exhilarating, captivating and enjoyable as a summer romance in an exotic city.Read the full review

Through it all, Vicky Cristina Barcelona remains unaccountably romantic, a confirmation that love, elusive and painful as it can be, is still worth pursuing.Read the full review

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is beautiful because Allen is now decidedly in control of this phase of his career, which blends the sharpness of his older dramas with a newly acquired expatriate hipness.Read the full review

Offers potent romantic fantasy elements for men and women and a cast that should produce the best commercial returns for a Woody Allen film since "Match Point."Read the full review

The actors are attractive, the city is magnificent, the love scenes don't get all sweaty, and everybody finishes the summer a little wiser and with a lifetime of memories. What more could you ask?Read the full review

Woody Allen's sexiest movie ever.Read the full review

The narration, aided by a terrific score, does streamline the storytelling, and adds to it a faintly sardonic top note.Read the full review

Although Vicky Cristina trips along winningly, carried by the beauty of its locations and stars -- and all the gauzy romanticism those enchanted places and people imply -- it reverberates with implacable melancholy, a sense of loss.Read the full review