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My Blueberry Nights
2007
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My Blueberry Nights
Positive Reviews
46
Negative reviews
21
Average Rating
3.0
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3.2
My Blueberry Nights hints that buried in Wongs spicy odd noodlings may be an even better conventional filmmaker.
EW
3.1
Thats what you pay for, and thats what you get from Wong: luscious, colorful treats that are gorgeous to behold and easy to swallow.
Rogerebert
2.5
But in a film thats already established its protagonist as a raging, loathsome man, theres no room here for romantic notions of crime.
1.5
But this time, the effect is contrived: a star driven pseudo indie affair that will please neither celebrity worshipers nor cineastes.
2.5
My Blueberry Nights can be sexy as hell, but for the first time in a Wong film, I felt duped for being so easily seduced.
1.5
What the film ends up feeling like is someone elses clumsy attempt to imitate Kar Wais style while missing out on his obsessive perfection and emotion ..
Paste Magazine
5.0
My Blueberry Nights is perhaps the most deliriously entertaining thing that Wong has ever made, at least since the equally rapturous Chungking Express ..
E Film Critic
1.5
Narratives and places are secondary to the dreamy, bitter sweet tone Wong is so keen to evoke, and with which, like a scent one might spray on too lib ..
Telegraph
3.8
The second is that hes committed to replicating, in visual terms, what its like to feel passion.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Far from a disaster, but it does feel like a footnote. Its difficult to see why the great director and very talented performers worked so hard to deli ..
3.5
It doesnt hurt that visually, it ends up making the whole thing look gorgeous in a dreamy, moody haze of grainy, carefully splashed colors.
Cinema Blend
3.5
She does a competent job in the role but it doesnt require much heavy lifting.
Cinema Blend
2.5
Setting out a grandly romantic dish, Wong encourages us to indulge. And then he leaves us hungry for something more.
Ny Daily News
2.5
The Hong Kong directors efforts to transplant things to a distinctly American tableau fail. Prettily, but miserably.
Philly
3.8
But despite its flaws, the film has the same dreamy, romantic melancholy that distinguishes Wongs best films.
Tv Guide
4.4
The Region 3 release doesnt have any of those Day 1, Day 9 title cards in between scenes, nor does it have filler like shots of the elevated train whi ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.5
Its sweet and mostly satisfying, like a silky dessert at the end of a relaxed meal.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
Wong Kar Wais American debut is as gorgeously filmed as youd expect, but its also surprisingly mopey and downbeat for a story about love.
Shadows On The Wall
2.0
Wong Kar Wais English language debut is gorgeously shot, but its let down by a tedious script, paper thin characters and some dodgy performances.
View London
2.5
Too much of this film is attenuated and vague, but it has moments of deep melancholy.
Cs Monitor
2.5
The biggest problem is Wongs decision to cast Norah Jones as Elizabeth, a New Yorker who hits the road after a love affair goes bad. Jones, in her fir ..
New York Post
1.5
Here found art sets appear cluttered, his still life tableaus clichd and his beauty shot close ups unglamorous.
Film Journal International ..
3.1
My Blueberry Nights is Wong Kar Wais first English language movie. Perhaps not coincidentally, its also his worst movie.
Boston
4.5
She meets Arnie (David Strathairn), a decent man who cant stop drinking.
Smh
4.5
If that idea appeals to you, then this beautifully haunting film may well also.
Mountain X
1.9
This one is so far off Wongs best that it cant even be described as an interesting failure.
Toronto Star
2.8
Wong Kar Wais first English speaking feature bears some artistic merits, particularly for viewers unfamiliar with his oeuvre, but overall its a disapp ..
Emanuellevy
1.5
But going weak in the knees isnt something most audiences enjoy doing on command.
Slate
1.5
I dont know how to begin, goes the song as Jude Laws Jeremy meets Nora Jones heart broken Elizabeth.
1.8
And Jones, cute as she is, isnt compelling enough to hold the camera.
Movies
3.0
For all its delicious moments, though, you cant help feeling there are a couple of ingredients missing from this frustratingly insubstantial confectio ..
Bbc
1.5
, not Jones, is the savory dish of movie magic in a mostly bland Blueberry Nights.
Time
2.5
My Blueberry Nights isnt even remotely as romantic as Wong Kar Wais other films, and thats its major downfall.
Bullz-Eye
3.0
Away from home, Wong is on far from vintage form. But he still speaks the seductive language of longing with tactile tenderness, and draws out a natur ..
Total Film
2.5
Actress Jameela Jamil uses drama over Kim Kardashians maternity shapewear to remind us to second guess everything tabloids write about women.
Calendar Live
3.1
Wong Kar Wais dreamy film boasts strong performances but ultimately feels more like a wistful character study than a heartfelt romance.
Hollywood
3.8
My Blueberry Nights captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images.
Seattle Pi
2.0
The film is 90 minutes that feel like a lifetime as nothing really happens ... disappointing at best and extremely aggravating at worst.
4.0
With the clutch of strong performances, its stunning visual style and the accessibility of its English language script, Wong should find a whole new s ..
Boxoffice Magazine
4.5
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+2 probably wont blow away newbies, and honestly, Skate was a better pure skating game (remaster or sequel, please, EA) but if ..
Film Ink
3.8
Wongs films feel part of each other, elements of a protracted, immersive meditation on memory, love, loss and longing.
The Age
1.5
is a blank presence she cant give the film the heart or soul it needs.
Abc
2.5
The television dramedy Pushing Daisies is about a pie maker with mysterious abilities.
Cleve Land
3.1
My Blueberry Nights is like a short film that goes on for too long. It is a flimsy, if inoffensive, addition to Wong Kar Wais canon, an insignificant ..
Christianity Today
4.5
The movie is all over the map in more than just its cross country itinerary, and these stars are all far too good looking to imagine them as unrequite ..
News Blaze
3.5
The picture requires a full commitment to metered passion, and if that isnt available to you, I wouldnt bother trying to tackle this specialized exper ..
Brian Or Ndorf
3.0
Like the pies that give the film its title, My Blueberry Nights is really just a dessert, something sweet and mostly insubstantial.
Antagony & Ecstasy
3.5
This creates an awkward shakiness thats fortified with interjections of high volume, often distracting soundtrack.
Hollywood Chicago
3.0
Visually his film looks stunning on a giant festival screen, but the links between characters and stories require large leaps of faith.
Entertainment Times Online ..
2.0
An awful banality invades; principally in the conversations between restaurant manager Law and his lovelorn customer, played by the singer Norah Jones ..
Film Guardian
1.0
Theres a jaunty score by Randy Newman, and Clooney, as always, has charm to burn, but here, hes off his game.
Wsj
4.5
Though its beautifully shot (and characteristically drenched in red orange light), the characters gently bump each other away, like slow rolling billi ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
Stunning photography and Wongs formidable directing abilities cannot salvage this emotionally empty exercise in style.
Film4
3.8
A movie for those of us who have wanted to see Wong Kar Wais talents applied to storytelling rather than abstraction.
Film Blather
4.5
Three years after 2046, Wong Kar wai is not in love any more and I for one am happy for him.
Boston Phoenix
4.5
Right from the beginning, theres a discomforting sense of banality blanketing the film: the journey, the pie motif, the faith in new beginnings.
IGN Movies
3.5
General audiences will likely be lost, but the films cast list may just attract those who were wanting for Wong Kar Wai and had yet to find him. And i ..
Movies Ign
2.8
The banal story serves as an excuse for some stylish, moody photography.
Compuserve
3.3
From the start, its abundantly clear that Wong hasnt made an art film, but theres plenty of artistry on display here nonetheless.
Movie Martyr
2.2
Critical darling auteur Wong Kar Wai may have a knack for luscious cinematic compositions, but his limited narrative sensibilities hobble this scatter ..
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
2.5
Instead of focusing on the carcass of love gone bad, the film is merely the flies buzzing around it, wallowing in sadness with little to do or say.
Metromix.com
1.5
Like My Blueberry Nights, is a looker with depressingly little going on beneath her striking facade.
Cinematical
3.8
My Blueberry Nights may be a bit more interested in look than feel it conveys blue as a color far more effectively than it conveys blue as an emotiona ..
Cinematical
4.0
The entire cast give engaging and intimate performances with singer songwriter Norah Jones as Elizabeth making an impressive acting debut.
Cinema Autopsy
3.1
One hopes that, having possibly purged his romanticized preconceptions about the U.S., Wong comes back sometime, gets comfortable with his setting, an ..
Premiere Magazine
3.1
In the end, the cinematography and music give off a sultry, smoky vibe that borders on intoxicating, Wong never backs it up with anything of meaning.
From the Front Row
3.5
But its a stylish and sweet film with moments of affecting brilliance that counterbalance its flaws.
Blog Oregonlive
3.5
My Blueberry Nights feels like an abundantly attractive travelogue, the work of an artist whos passing through rather than taking up residence.
Deep Focus
1.5
But its not the English that seems to trip up the writer director; its the language. Wongs script, co written with Lawrence Block, tosses out the film ..
MSNBC
4.5
A refresher, deep breath after the fractured convolution in production and final result of his last film, 2046...
Mubi
2.5
My Blueberry Nights proves Norah Jones isnt ready for a movie career quite yet.
Washington Times
1.5
My Blueberry Nights at any length doesnt begin to answer the question why Jones, who seems nice in a bland, girl next door way, would ever be tapped t ..
Knight At The Movies
1.8
Wai fills the void with pointless slow mo shots while pushing his real talent to commit over acting hara kiri with syrupy drawls and nonsense perspect ..
Ie Weekly
4.5
This is a kind of storytelling I love, about moments captured in time, about the sensuality of image, about the overwhelming emotional assault of lovi ..
Seanax
3.0
Wong Kar Wei brings a first timers vision of America the lurid neons and flashing subway trains are beautifully captured but any emotional heart, larg ..
Sky Cinema
4.5
Yes, if another filmmaker had made My Blueberry Nights, I would probably be able to recommend it, but knowing what Wong Kar Wais capable of, I just ca ..
1.5
Could it be that the director feels less certain he gets his message across in a language that is not his Voice overs from several characters are used ..
european-films.net
0.5
Nothing works in My Blueberry Nights. Even Wong Kar wais famous ability to pick music deserts him.
Nplusonemag
3.8
(Norah) Jones doesnt merely hold her own in a pouty screen debut of note; she looks comfortable and purrs with the confidence of someone who belongs.
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