This is a wonderful movie.

| Apr 20, 2021

Granted, there are some memorable, big laughs here but the movie that surrounds them is largely forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 20, 2021

If L.A. Story isn't thematically consistent enough to qualify as a classic, it's still consistently entertaining.

| Apr 20, 2021

Despite the film's antic, hallucinatory shimmer, there's something heartfelt and substantial at its core.

| Apr 20, 2021

Martin's customary wackiness seems strangely curbed and L.A. Story, while certainly not without its moments never quite adds up to the sum of its parts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2021

More to the point, L.A. Story is giddy fun.

| Feb 6, 2018

Narratively, this crazy-grid comedy is slighter than a plate of California cuisine, but what it lacks in solid bulk it more than makes up for in its neon array of oddball cultural colors.

| Feb 8, 2017

L.A. Story has a fizzy-bubbly charm.

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

This is a very personal Martin project -- the sweet-souled, nonstop-funny testament of a native Angeleno. Sly and soulful, it's the comedy that dares to be dippy.

| Feb 2, 2009

Goofy and sweet, L.A. Story constitutes Steve Martin's satiric valentine to his hometown and a pretty funny comedy in the bargain.

| Sep 2, 2008

Steve Martin's script, a delightfully scatty account of life in the city of angels, exposes romance lurking beyond the snobbish restaurants and routine muggings...

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2005

Like Mr. Martin himself, L.A. Story seems basically decent, intelligent and sweet. It's a fanciful romantic comedy whose wildest and craziest notion is that Los Angeles, for all of its eccentricities, is a great place to live.

| May 20, 2003

To borrow from Abe Lincoln: Steve Martin's L.A. Story will make all of the people laugh some of the time, some of the people laugh all of the time but not...well, you know the rest.

| Jan 1, 2000

Steve Martin shows again in this film that he has found the right comic presence for the movies; the lack of subtlety in early films like The Jerk has now been replaced by a smoothness and unforced intelligence.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

If the material had been presented more insistently, it might have been insufferable, too goopy and new-age. Its modesty, though, is its prime virtue. It's breezy and light as cloud's breath -- not so much airheaded as air-hearted.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Feb 8, 1991