Virtues abound -- an all-Gershwin score, a likely tale, adept Gene Kelly, a delightful newcomer named Leslie Caron, a windup of dancing before imaginative settings and over all a spirit of crisp originality and sophistication.

| Aug 2, 2022

Too fancy and overblown, but the two dancing lovers have infectious grins and the Gershwin music keeps everything good-spirited.

| Jul 28, 2022

Gene Kelly -- star and choreographer -- never lets the jig-time slacken. The picture runs up the stairs and dances down the street. It never rests.

| Apr 13, 2021

A fluid, beautifully picturesque affair, this elaborate development of the boy-meets-girl theme is as lavish and handsome an offering as any entertainment seeker ever found for the price.

| Apr 13, 2021

An American in Paris offers wit, beauty, charm, smart dancing, happy music, melodious singing, and originality. There's nostalgia, as well, for those who have known and loved Paris.

| Apr 13, 2021

Against the pretty-as-a-picture background of this fabulous dream city, then, the cast scampers through the motions of a plot that requires only slight concentration on acting, but plenty in the way of personal appeal.

| Apr 13, 2021

[An American in Paris] climaxes with a brilliant 17-minute ballet whose only movie competition is the ballet of The Red Shoes.

| Apr 13, 2021

An American in Paris is about a town which most Americans know only as tourists -- and this film too looks like a tourist: a talented tourist, no doubt but still a noisy and awkward one.

| Apr 13, 2021

These are mainly opportunities for Mir. Kelly, Miss Caron, and Mr. Georges Guetary to sing and dance. The most effective are two elaborate dream sequences.

| Apr 13, 2021

An American in Paris assures enjoyment for the public as few pictures have done thus far this season. It is original, gay and different. It has plenty or entertainment. It climaxes in a radiant artistic carnival that is indeed unique.

| Apr 13, 2021

The story [is] not original, perhaps, but it serves to hold together some of the most dazzling ballet and musical scenes ever filmed.

| Apr 13, 2021

This colorful mélange is held together, not so much by Allan Jay Lerner's fragile, rambling script as by the buoyant, trenchant personality and acting and dancing talent of Gene Kelly.

| Apr 12, 2021

The appeal of the film is its music; its dancing arid its carefree charm.

| Feb 6, 2020

One of the great MGM musicals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2015

Inspired by the late George Gershwin's impressionistic musical suite of the same name, the picture is one of the finest musicals Hollywood has ever produced.

| Feb 22, 2015

Imperfect, then, but intermittently awe-inspiring.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2015

Fresher than ever.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2011

Seven Oscars resulted in 1952, for once deserved.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2011

It is a little sugary and theatrical and perhaps it has dated less well than other classic Hollywood musicals. But there is charm and a kind of willed American innocence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2011

A grand show -- a brilliant combination of Hollywood's opulence and technical wizardry with the kind of taste and creativeness that most high-budgeted musicals notoriously lack.

| Feb 18, 2009