Redundant and unnecessary.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

New York, I Love You (2009) Directors: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner Watched: 7/27/18 Rating: 7/10 First Paris, Now New York. What's next? Shanghai. Eleven stories hold varied merit, Segue scenes/montages bridge them superbly. Ensemble cast- No talent Shortage There. Pleased To watch Lesser known Directors' work. Rife with irony/perepeteia- Method actress/Painter/Writer's Call Girl Are best segments. A mixed bag, But more Wins. Tetractys poems stem from the mathematician Euclid, who considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have a mystical significance because of its sum of 10. He named it a Tetractys. Thus, these poems follow a 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllable format, with additional verses written in an inverted syllable count. #Tetractys #QuadrupleTetractys #PoemReview #Anthology #RomanticComedy

This movie is really boring and the best part was the old couple who celebrated their anniversary at Coney Island. I thought the acting was really bad at times, for instance when Orlando Bloom was explaining why he can't read a book. The story about the kid who took a girl in a wheel chair to prom and had sex with her as she held herself up attaching a belt to a tree trunk and only to later find out she was just acting was just pathetic. The story with Natalie Portman who shaved her head when she was married and then to reveal her bald head to a man was just unbelievable. It just seemed to weird, awkward and not worth Natalie shaving her head. The title of the movie doesn't really make sense as the setting just takes place in New York, it isn't really about or celebrating New York. It is such a random title and doesn't fit the movie. Otherwise this story is about just life. Brief moments.

It may seem to give ten stars to a film that is admittedly flawed. But when you consider the number of writers and directors involved, this is a great piece of work. And if one segment doesn't hold your interest, another will come along in a few minutes.There were several segments that were great -- A young couple is walking along the street. She argues that he never wants to go anywhere. This very short segment, for some reason, made me unreasonably happy. -- In a touching segment written and directed by Natalie Portman, a man takes a little girl to Central Park. -- A young woman who is an orthodox Jew (Portman) prepares for her very traditional wedding. -- A man (Chris Cooper) is talking on his cell phone and smoking. By the way, for some reason characters in this smoke like mad. A beautiful woman (Robin Penn Wright) comes out of a restaurant, asks for a light, and engages him in conversation. -- A young man who has been jilted takes a wheelchair bound girl to the prom. -- A singer (Julie Christie) visits an elegant hotel and contemplates suicide in a segment written by Anthony Mingella which veers toward magical realism and is very different from the others.There are other stories here, all of them at least interesting.I personally find it irritating that people making films today are reluctant to provide us with opening titles. Too often I was wondering who a performer was, or I was thinking "Isn't that...?"Faults: 1. There is needless profanity that adds nothing to the characters and seems randomly thrown in as if someone rushed to the set shouting, "Hey, we want to get an R rating so the kids will think this is American PIE or HOSTEL and come see it." To me the smoking was a turnoff, too- probably because in the circles I run in I'd say that maybe one in ten people smoke. 2. Not really a fault, but much of this seemed to have been written for the stage. The vast bulk of the film is two people talking. There's nothing wrong with that, but it can become static. 3. Some characters have minor parts in other stories. There are just too many people for audiences to sort out in such a short period of time.If you like the short stories of O. Henry (whose writing is a major influence on the structure of most of the stories) you'll enjoy NEW YORK I LOVE YOU. And if you've never read O. Henry, you really should.

Urgh. Watched this courtesy of my significant other. It is a dull, insulting little collection of "star studded" advertisements for a big city in the United States. The dialog, characters and soundtrack are the pretentious, meaningless pulp an untalented filmmaker attempting to produce a "timeless classic" would come up with. It's a sort of silhouette of a good movie, devoid of depth and full of slow piano. The shallowness is exaggerated by the little time given to each story. Possibly interesting characters are given no time to develop. Possibly interesting stories are reduced to little gags. Movies like this are to actual cinema what prefab commercial music is to actual song. (Needless to say, my girlfriend loved it.)