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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxDespite its flaws, the film has the same dreamy, romantic melancholy that distinguishes Wong's best films.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanNorah Jones, making her big-screen debut as a wistful wanderer, is a beautiful blank, and the fragments barely add up to a movie.
- 63PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyAll this is frustrating, as the picture contains a few grace notes that remind one what an acute filmmaker Wong can be.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe director is chasing a mood here -- a mood, an atmosphere and feelings -- much as he did in "In the Mood for Love."
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirMy Blueberry Nights may not quite be what fans of either Jones or Wong Kar-wai -- directing his first film in English -- are expecting. It's a late-night, lovelorn mood piece in a minor key, not complicated or convoluted, finally more confection than substance.
- 50VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyAs much a trifle as its title suggests, My Blueberry Nights sees Hong Kong stylist Wong Kar Wai applying his characteristic visual and thematic doodles to a wispy story of lovelorn Yanks.
- 50Village VoiceMichelle OrangeVillage VoiceMichelle OrangeThe disappointment here doesn't have much to do with Wong doing America--he's been doing America for years, even in Chinese--but with Wong doing Wong, and not up to his own standard.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigOften ponderous, sometimes pretentious and mostly clichéd, this contrived meditation on longing and loss feels like a missed opportunity.
- 50Wall Street JournalWall Street JournalAlternately precious and vapid, the movie attempts to wrest metaphors from a jar of house keys, and eternal verities from pastry. Slice the pie how you will, it's still half-baked.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe biggest problem is Wong's decision to cast Norah Jones as Elizabeth, a New Yorker who hits the road after a love affair goes bad. Jones, in her first movie, can't act. (There, I said it!)