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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Just keeping it all straight -- real-life filmmaker directing real-life wife in make-believe nude scene about same-named make-believe character's insecurities about same-named wife's make-believe nude scenes -- can leave you a little breathless. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: My Wife is an Actress is obviously influenced by Woody Allen's movies about the film business -- and it has the raw energy that's been missing from some of Allen's later work. Read more

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: My Wife offers the best and the worst of both Allen's ego-and- neuroses-based humor and Truffaut's romanticism about love and movies. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A terrifically deft picture about the thick line that separates movie glamour from the real world, and the thin line between common sense and paranoia. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Overall it's a promising debut, and a love letter to the droopily beautiful Gainsbourg. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: My Wife Is an Actress is an utterly charming French comedy that feels so American in sensibility and style it's virtually its own Hollywood remake. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: The film title My Wife Is an Actress should be extended to finish with . . . and I'm a Major Annoyance. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: With every detail in this clever peekaboo, the sly filmmaker dangles the possibility that fiction is fact and that Yvan and Charlotte are real -- or at least as real as the movies. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: I found it slow, predictable and not very amusing. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Yvan may be a self-deprecating paranoiac in the Woody Allen tradition, but Mr. Attal's script does a fine job of making his character's concerns farcically real. Read more

Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly: [Yvan] mugs his way through any number of low-comic situations ... leaving Charlotte -- and this critic -- ever more exasperated and unsure about whether it's going to be worth hanging in for the long haul. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If the movie were all comedy, it might work better. But it has an ambition to say something about its subjects, but not a willingness. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Despite the wobbly tone, and the ambiguity that hangs over the last section of the movie, My Wife Is an Actress is a light, enjoyable night out. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage. Read more

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Sid Adilman, Toronto Star: Attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama. He seems to want both, but succeeds in making neither. Read more

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Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Gainsbourg is virtually incidental to her mate's screeching navel-serenade, which maintains a stranglehold on the declarative first-person mode of its title. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's Othello Lite -- minus that bit at the end about murder-suicide, but with every ounce of Shakespeare's insane emotion. Read more