Flawed, yet entertaining and uplifting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

We may love the French and their spirit, their zest for life. But when they start falling in love with themselves, the whoopie turns to ennui.

| Feb 3, 2018

Barratier (Les Choristes) seems to be making a bid to be France's new master of sweet nostalgia with a musical bent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2011

Destined to be one of the season's most energetic white elephants.

| Aug 18, 2011

A tasty, tuneful Gallic confection.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 31, 2010

A simplistic, uncomplicated multi-storied exploration of the French depression.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2010

big, overwrought melodrama that celebrates the joy of big, overwrought melodramas

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2009

A frothy concoction that thrives on the improvisational creativity found on a stage.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2009

It is a musical comedy/drama set in another time and place that asks you to give yourself over... If you're willing to play along the result is magnifique.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2009

Elegant, reality-tinged silliness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 22, 2009

It's clearly old-fashioned entertainment, and while the blue-hairs will dig it, I suspect many of us with brown, blonde, black or red hair will embrace it as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2009

A stereotypical 'little' French film that nevertheless comes wrapped in an awfully sweet package.

| May 15, 2009

Those who like their movies (a) cute and (b) in French will go oui, oui, oui all the way home after spending 120 minutes with this rose-tinted homage to the neighborhood music halls of France...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 8, 2009

You'll leave the theater feeling really, really good.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 8, 2009

This flaky French import can't stick to one story and can't find a way to resolve its myriad story lines in the proper fashion.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 8, 2009

Whimsical and toothless.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 7, 2009

Paris 36 is ultimately about men and power.

| May 7, 2009

Oh my goodness, I didn't expect this: Paris 36 is The Muppet Show in, you know, Paris in 1936.

| May 6, 2009

Paris 36 is one of those exasperating movies which can't decide what it want to be and, as a result, ends up being not very much as all.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 1, 2009

It's a complete confection -- handsome, sentimental. In the end, it works as entertainment.

| May 1, 2009