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Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabThe IndependentGeoffrey MacnabStanley Donen's 1957 musical represents a triumph of form over content.
- 88LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenYou can argue with the movie in your head, even while you admit—say, when Dick and Jo dance their way across a stream by lightly stepping onto a floating raft—that your heart is having all sorts of fun.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichSensation trumps cogitation-unsurprising in a Hollywood production-which doesn't negate the enduring allure of this beautiful bauble.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonA timeless musical treat and the most fun you can have with really elegant clothes on.
- 80The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherRoger Edens, the talented producer, and Stanley Donen, the director, have turned the whole thing into a lovely phantasm made up of romance, tourism and chic.
- 60Time Out LondonCath ClarkeTime Out LondonCath ClarkeThere are some gorgeous comic touches.
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe film’s sophistication is compromised by the rather dumb plot, but some of the numbers—especially “Think Pink” and “Bonjour Paris”—are standouts.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawHepburn is in the boho-gamine mode, and this has a brittle charm, (arguably more than in Breakfast At Tiffany's four years later) but there is something unconvincing in the May-to-December pairing of 28-year-old Hepburn and 58-year-old Astaire and also something grumpy and not particularly classy about the way this film shrieks with laughter at silly modern women filling their empty heads with trendy Parisian intellectualism.
- 40The Irish TimesTara BradyThe Irish TimesTara BradyAstaire’s dancing and Audrey’s charm sweeten a bitter pill. But unearthing this vicious artefact is not unlike exhibiting a medieval chastity belt.