…an enjoyable rom-com that doesn’t disgrace the high standards of the film’s original creator…

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2022

A very lazy movie, with some good moments and some good performances, but that is not memorable. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Cute, breezy, and fun.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 28, 2008

There are a few extra plot threads that feel like parking spaces that don't quite fit, but the story is squeezed in anyway. I'd still check out the valet.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2007

A charming if familiar French comedy of manners, again showing writer-director Francis Veber's skillful touch as a farceur, this time with elegant British actress Kristin Scott Thomas and vet Daniel Auteuil, who could have played this role in his sleep

| Original Score: B- | Sep 18, 2007

Very, very sleepy and low-key.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 14, 2007

The movie is so tame you may find your mind wandering toward the casting of the inevitable Hollywood remake. (Jonah Hill as Pignon, perhaps?)

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2007

I can even see Adam Sandler starring in an American remake. Can't you just see a dopey, befuddled Sandler sharing a lumpy little twin bed with, say, Jessica Alba?

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2007

Except for a slightly misguided final scene, LA DOUBLURE (THE VALET) is a great dessert movie: a brisk and breezy romp that will leave audiences smiling.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 14, 2007

I kept fantasizing about how great this film would have been if Eric Rohmer had made it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2007

If you're in the mood for Gallic lightheartedness, you know where to go.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 8, 2007

One can see Moliére being jealous of the plot line, and Karl Marx applauding. You see capitalists who exploit the masses do not fare too well in this venture.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2007

Veber fills the film with engagingly quirky characters and bright gags that keep it floating along with such assurance that it constantly charms.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2007

Improbable? Perhaps, but one of writer-director Francis Veber's gifts as a farceur is to make the unlikely both credible and amusing.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 2, 2007

What fun! Not really.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 1, 2007

Veber's dialogue is as witty as ever, and he gets great mileage out of his likable cast, particularly Elmaleh and Taglioni.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2007

The Valet is a trifle with a few good ideas strewn about, but which feels rushed and too flimsy for its own good.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 31, 2007

Stereotypes were made to be broken, but don't expect the lithe screwball comedy "The Valet" to change your ideas of Gallic humor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 30, 2007

It's all empty calories, of course, but that's what French pastry -- not to mention popcorn -- is all about.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 25, 2007