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Movie Overview
Cast
• Norah Jones
• Jude Law
• David Strathairn
Director
• Wong Kar-Wai
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for mature thematic material including violence, drinking and smoking
My Blueberry Nights (2008)

REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh
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"'My Blueberry Nights' knows where it's going, but it takes the most boring way possible to get there."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  A. J. Hakari

"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 to make explicit what should ideally have been inferred from what transpires on screen."  european-films.net  Boyd van Hoeij

3.5/5
"It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece."  CinemaBlend.com  Brian Holcomb

B
"Emotionally aloof, but never far from a moment of beauty."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

3.5/5
"mostly a success, though set apart from Wong's previous work in that it won't have people coming back over and over again"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

C-
"Critical darling auteur Wong Kar Wai may have a knack for luscious cinematic compositions, but his limited narrative sensibilities hobble this scattershot romantic drama."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"Less sensuous than the pie à la mode, more nuanced than the doors opening and closing, cutting the cards might not change any odds, but it does offer an illusion of choice."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

3/5
"El director de Con ánimo de amar y 2046 se traslada con éxito a Estados Unidos, donde filma una historia de amor sugestiva, íntima y encantadora."  Uruguay Total  Enrique Buchichio

B
"It's sweet and mostly satisfying, like a silky dessert at the end of a relaxed meal."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

B+
"A movie for those of us who have wanted to see Wong Kar Wai's talents applied to storytelling rather than abstraction."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

"The too-neat screenplay doesn't allow for nearly as much improvisation as Wong's earlier Hong Kong reveries, but this impressionistic canvas is still profoundly sensuous and floridly vulnerable"  CinePassion  Fernando F. Croce

3/4
"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 emotional state -- but it's a feast of beauty while it gracefully unfolds on-screen."  Cinematical  James Rocchi

6/10
"Consider it Wong lite."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

65/100
"To complain that it is hardly a film that shows Wong at the height of his power is to close oneself off to the small, somewhat lovely pleasures that it manages to offer."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

3.5/5
"General audiences will likely be lost, but the film's cast list may just attract those who were wanting for Wong Kar Wai and had yet to find him. And if the film can win the auteur even more fans, then it can't really be that bad."  IGN Movies  Joe Utichi

2/5
"yperstylizarismeno mehri asfyksias, horis polla-polla apo oysia na anastatonoyn ton enthoysiasmo toy Kar Wai me ta filtra kai ta hromata kai ta fota apo neon kai toys kapnoys kai tis myrodies tis Amerikis"  Movies for the Masses  Joseph Proimakis

"Like My Blueberry Nights, [Jones' Elizabeth] is a looker with depressingly little going on beneath her striking facade."  Cinematical  Nick Schager

5/5
""My Blueberry Nights" is perhaps the most deliriously entertaining thing that Wong has ever made, at least since the equally rapturous "Chungking Express.""  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3/5
"Wong Kar Wai's American debut is as gorgeously filmed as you'd expect, but it's also surprisingly mopey and downbeat for a story about love."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

B+
"My Blueberry Nights captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

"This is a kind of storytelling I love, about moments captured in time, about the sensuality of image, about the overwhelming emotional assault of loving and living."  Seanax.com  Sean Axmaker

6/10
"Like the pies that give the film its title, My Blueberry Nights is really just a dessert, something sweet and mostly insubstantial."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh
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