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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: In all their variations, with many of them graced by the presence of big-name actors, these 18 movies coalesce into an incandescent portrait of a city rife with possibilities for romance. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: You couldn't call it perfect -- the episodes are uneven -- but it has something that sometimes is better than perfection: real love for its subject and themes. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Most features composed of sketches by different filmmakers are wildly uneven. This one is consistently mediocre, albeit pleasant and watchable. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: The best is saved for last: Payne's 14th arrondissement takes its time to create a Parisian epiphany that both pokes fun at an American tourist (Margo Martindale) and finds grace in her acceptance of a fragile moment of transcendence. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Luckily, Paris, Je T'Aime contains a few good films among its total whiffs. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: The best segments are as good as film gets; the losers can make you wince. On the whole, the good outweigh the bad and make the film feel like a minivacation in the City of Light. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: As an ad for the city's charms, Paris couldn't have asked for a more sweetly jaundiced love letter. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Payne's film alone would be worth the price of admission. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Even the least tales here flit by quickly enough to leave little bad aftertaste, and the best are savored like the last small bites of exquisite souffles. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The best episodes, however, have the emotional resonance of full-length features, and yet I didn't want them to be a moment longer than they are. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Anthology films usually work better in theory than execution, but this feature parade of shorts is a blithe, worldly, and enchanting exception. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Split evenly between the inspired segments and those that fall flat, this ambitious omnibus is still worth watching. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: It manages to leave you feeling buoyed and grinning; sort of like what an easygoing week's vacation in Paris might induce -- along with occasional torpor, frenzy, melancholy and surprises. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Some shorts work. Others don't. It is fascinating, though, to see which ones do, and why. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: On paper, the film looks like a slam dunk, but that isn't the way it plays out. Perhaps it's the time-limit constraints or maybe they just don't care, but most of the directors aren't working at full speed. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A valentine to the City of Light, Paris, Je T'Aime threatens no electrical power outages, but it does leave a nice candlelight glow. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: After having seen the 18 pieces that made the final cut, I can't help wondering on what grounds the two rejected works were judged unworthy. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A little uneven in style, tone and quality. But the picture that emerges of Paris is romantic, cosmopolitan and hopeful. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: It is possible to bring substance, as well as poetry, to the vignette form, but more often Paris, Je T'Aime is merely mundane. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The result is that after two hours one gets the sense of having seen a panorama of human experience, of having witnessed a moment of time in all its true fullness. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Wildly, frustratingly uneven. Read more
Christy Lemire, Toronto Star: It's not sexy or stylish or glamorous or any of the things you might assume Paris would be before going there. But of all the segments that comprise the film, it comes the closest to depicting honestly what it feels like to fall in love. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: There seems to be something in Paris air or water that encourages compendium filmmaking -- multiple characters and multiple stories. Paris, Je T'Aime may be the grandest such work currently on view. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: You expect quality to vary from segment to segment, but the misses outweigh the hits by a depressingly high margin. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's hard not to love Paris, Je t'Aime. A valentine to the planet's most romantic city, this delightful anthology of 18 short films will make you long to bid adieu to your humdrum existence and board the next plane to the City of Lights. Read more
Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice: Paris, Je T'aime's brimming declaration of love to the City of Lights leaves one breathless but dissatisfied. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Paris, je t'aime builds into something quite wonderful. Read more