Vicky Cristina Barcelona Critic Reviews

Fitfully good.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

The writing is zippy, the story spins like a top, and Bardem turns out to be the wittiest of leading men.Read the full review

Bardem's performance is so good it tends to mask how lacking much of what surrounds it is.Read the full review

An atypical Allen film. Some of his usual themes are present - in particular, his neuroses about sex and love - but this movie does not bear enough Allen hallmarks to single it out as his work.Read the full review

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

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

The two most hilarious characters, played by Spain's two most famous actors, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, are nothing if not cliches about tempestuous Latin lovers. But, boy, does Allen have fun with those cliches.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