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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
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
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
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