New York, I Love You

Definitely not as good as Paris, Je T'aime, even though New York is my favorite city. There's a few entertaining shorts, a few that are laughably artsy-fartsy (the one starring Shia LeBeouf especially), and a few that are straightforward but pretty pointless.

Slight, but I disagree with the consensus that this is a much weaker anthology film than 'Paris, I Love You'. Attal's two segments are the strongest, the one with Hawke and Maggie Q in particular, and Ratner's segment is okay too. Most of the others are borderline pointless and very forgettable. However, the ensemble cast is impressive, not to mention outrageously attractive (Portman, Q, Christie & Shu), and the only segment that is actually bad (though well-shot, at least) is the one by Kapur.

Short films that tell nothing at all.

Shia whose dick did you suck

Even though "Paris, je t'aime" consisted of individual stories, it ended up feeling like a classy, accomplished piece of work, a feeling which "New York, I Love You" failed to evoke. They could've at least shed a light on the city's famous sights, why do these stories take place in cabs, bars, restaurants, appartments, hotel rooms,... Save for Ethan Hawke's/Maggie Q's part, this is a total disappointment.

A lot of great stuff, but I wish it'd been tied together a little more. But Ethan Hawke's segment is worth the price of admission--maybe getting what you're looking for, and more, can turn a person around.

One of the poorest tributes to NYC ever conceived. How do you make a NY tribute film without Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese? The worst segment was Natalie Portman's part. With each film I see her in I grow more and more tired of her, she just bores me playing basically the same character in everything. Ultimately the film is just pointless, aimless and stupid. You can get more insight on the city by just going there and walking around for 5 minutes. Waste of time.

Didn't like it as much as Paris, Je T'aime. Parts attempted to flow together, but the clean breaks between segments (and knowing who directed each vignette) made the Paris film work a lot better for me. Highs and lows like before, but the highs were few and far between.

The first New York movie that made me long for NY again, after 11 years...

Dreary and dull collage of stories which doesn't work on any level, in spite of an impressive array of talent on both sides of the camera. Each story is more painfully inane and tiresome than the last; the tales have no sense of cohesion or purpose - with the exception of Leachman and Wallach's which is watchable mainly due to the actors' effortless charisma.

I was expecting something along the lines of Paris Je T'Aime. Instead I got something along the lines of Gossip Girl. The Shekhar Kapur section was a notable exception - though it could just as easily have done without it's suprise ending...

Lots of nice stuff and interesting scenes, but the stories are too interconnected to stand alone and too separate to fit together well. It all comes off a bit forced and incomplete even if it's still decently enjoyable. Certainly several notches below Paris, je t'aime.

There's a lot of potential here, and while the majority of the eleven short films is fairly satisfying, none inspires a real wow, none really hits you in the gut in the manner of several chapters in Paris, je t'aime. A few, like the Hasidic jeweler scene and a Fatih Akin scene involving an aging painter and a Chinese herbalist, deliver some nice, romantic arrows to the heart, but most don't swing hard enough for the fences, eliciting more of a "that's nice" than a "holy moly."

Lots of good work, stories slided nicely together, but anyway they stayed a bit lame. There was maybe three good and memorable stories. The rest were with mere funny twist in the end.

These movies were made for people who would love to visit New York but never have. If you have you'd realize these short films have nothing to do with the character of the city.

It's all decent but none of the shorts manage to really impress me. Passes the time but it's nothing you can't miss.

A film that fails to emulate its obvious inspiration: Paris je t'aime. Irrfan Khan's usal fatherly performance is the highlight. The film tries too hard to make it seem like a series of good stories, more like a jumbled mess. You had a great fillet at a great French restaurant, another chef tries to emulate it with an American twist, but fails to do so.so.

Some pieces are wonderful, the others are very good. You'll smile tenderly.

I live in New York and I have to say this movie is bullshit.

Some hits, mostly misses.

Not a bad film, not too different form the slew of ensemble cast films that came out in the 00s, like He's Just Not That Into You and Valentine's Day, only this one doesn't lazily try to sell them as connected, and it's all the better for it. Think of it as a collection of short stories. It works.

the relation to the setting is very loose on these shorts, as they rely more heavily on the "relationships of individuals" angle to carry their stories. the cosmopolitan nature of new york is finely portrayed, there are some funny bits and consistently good cinematography as well.

Pointless. Just not worth your time at all.

why waste several good directors and great actors to make a lousy movie when you can do it with just one bad director and a couple of average actors ??... complete lack of integrity... great acting from shia labeouf though...

Good. This is a series of unconnected vignettes, slices of love in the Big Apple. Some are profound, a few drab but all constituting a very entertaining mosaic. One biggest strength of this film lies in the excellent performances by the all star cast. I expected the pros to be great but I would never have guessed Shia Labeouf was such a good actor. A very fun film. Recommended.

New York is a magnificent city. Unfortunately most of these stories were uninspiring and forgettable.

Innovative, and many of the sketches are excellent, but it lacks cohesiveness.

A collection of short films by a talented cast; none are brilliant, but a couple are terrible.

Wanted to love it but it pathetically tries to be artsy and the stories, for the most part, just aren't interesting whatsoever

The thing that sets this port manteu apart from similar compilations is lapse between stories and edit. Except Ratner's bit it flows like a film. While none of the shorts were extraordinary, all in all I enjoyed it's colorful, atmospheric and light attitude. Gonna try Paris one now.

2014.3.28

New York, I bore you. Save the Yvan Attal and Shekar Kapur segments, the rest is so pointless

Sorry, I did not fall in love with this movie at all even with Portman and the "grandma of Malcolm in 'Malcolm in the middle'"

They put the bilson and portman scenes next to eachother. Not sure that's effective when I was going to turn it off after I had seen both of those.

A few glimpses at the streets, cabs, bars and backrooms of New York by famous and semi-famous arthouse directors. The film well captures the multiculturalism and the countless both made and missed connections between people living the city. However, not every segment is evenly good. They are loosely connected, but in the end, it is just a bunch of short films. Upside is, if you do not like one vignette, you only have to wait for a few minutes until it ends.

Paris Je'Taime is one of my favorite movies and this didn't even come close.

I watched this movie in 2021 and the first thing you notice is the huge cast. They managed to pull off a casting coup! It was almost a game to recognize what movies or TV series I had watched that actor/actress in before. This isn't an anthology like Babel or Crash where all the stories come together in the end dramatically. It was still a decent watch especially if you like NY.

"If at first you partially succeed, repeat the formula." - Andrew Schenker

Awkward stories of love, sex, life, death and cultural conflicts. The best episode is the one that never made it into the movie, directed by Scarlett Johansson and starring Kevin Bacon.

Paris, Je T'Aime crosses the pond. A multi-director box on bonbons, undeveloped little vignettes of male-female relations in the Big Apple. The ghostly segment by Shekhar Kapur stands out from the rest for stylistic reasons, the pallid palette, the persnickety compositions, the oval mirror frame within the frame.

Gotta see this film!

Interesting common stories in NY.

I am not sure what the point of making this movie was. It shows little snippets of different couples lives, with no overarching story or plot and nothing to connect them except that they live in New York. There are a few interesting moments, but ultimately it is disconnected and rather pointless.

The stories don't intersect, and each director was only given two days to shoot and one week to edit. Some have ironic twist endings, others are small slices of life with a classic New York vibe. As expected, the results are uneven, but with a maximum eight-minute runtime per story, there's always something new coming shortly.

Some of the segments are cute, some are deeply unoriginal, but most are completely indifferent.

No one broke any backs making this film, but, hey, it was cute.

Amateurish

really good all star cast 10 out of 10

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