A failure on all counts.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 27, 2021

[It] is the weakest of the series.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2019

"Rio, I Love You" is made up of segments that don't flow well. Overly long and boring, the film never truly captures the vibe and personality of its title city.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Rio, I Love You proves that it is infinitely harder said than done, however, to produce a quality anthology film about the heart's desires.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | May 13, 2016

Rio, I Love You is totally the brainchild of a tourism board.

| Original Score: C | May 5, 2016

Countless shots of the Christ the Redeemer statue notwithstanding, for all we're told about the titular location, they might just as well spread the love in Jersey.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 5, 2016

The city of Rio is easy to love. The movie "Rio, I Love You," not so much.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 5, 2016

Ten filmmakers probe the many different shades of love in the Brazilian city.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2016

If the beauty of Rio de Janeiro is jaw-dropping, so, too, is the slipshod manner in which the aforementioned talents go about their business there.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 29, 2016

Even viewers who were transported by the considerable charm of 2006's "Paris, je t'aime" will be hard-pressed to show any love for the latest entry in the travelog/anthology.

| Apr 28, 2016

Striking moments are overtaken by the fruit-juice mediocrity of everything else, particularly a connecting narrative about a cabdriver who insists on telling all his riders about the woman who got away.

| Apr 28, 2016

Stuffed with touristy images but not enough dramatic substance to make any of them count.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 28, 2016

Had producers cut it down to, say, the five most promising stories and fleshed them out a bit, the results might have been better. Instead, it feels just as you might be sucked into a story, it's over.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 28, 2016

A third metropolis gets the "city of love" coochy-coo... It's not much of a calling card for whichever city the producers hope to descend onto next.

| Apr 27, 2016

"Rio, I Love You" doesn't inspire feelings of love and adventure, it mostly triggers the urge to check a timepiece every five minutes.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 27, 2016

"Rio, I Love You" is the third film in the "Cities of Love" series, after "Paris, Je t'Aime" and "New York, I Love You." If this latest installment is any indication, all that jet-setting should be avoided.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 21, 2016

The shorts all play like exceedingly surreal commercials, like Mentos ads on crack.

| Original Score: D | Apr 21, 2016

The shots of Rio's scenic vistas are captivating. The shorts' actual storylines are less so.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 15, 2016

A collection of lackluster (or worse) shorts, offering viewers the chance to see famous filmmakers whiff it good

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2016

This tepid stew has all of the faults inherent in anthology film-a wayward, stultifying aimlessness, adding up to a big nothing-with none of the virtues.

| Apr 15, 2016