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Micmacs

Micmacs à tire-larigot

2009

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle ...

6.5

7,010

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	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"Jeunet himself describes the film best: Delicatessen meets Amélie. But we’d add that, while it’s certainly breezy fun, it’s not quite as good as either. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"Spiced with melancholy and magic, Micmacs is an imaginative live-action film with the playfulness of an animation like Ratatouille."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"There is no question that the heart of Micmacs is in the right place, but the movie is also a little thin."	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Highly visual but cold. It's undeniably inventive, but also relentlessly fey and self-consciously zany and, in terms of story, it moves with audacious slowness"	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Micmacs is an inventive romp punctuated by the kind of quirkiness Jeunet has brought to all his films."	POS
Canada	Stephen Cole The Globe and Mail	"A comedy should provoke more than smiles (...) Although often charming, Micmacs seems so pleased with itself that it hardly needs an audience"	NEU
United States	Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	"A spirited, imaginative spectacle that never quite takes flight."	NEU
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"At its best, Micmacs is a robust, enjoyably lunatic game."	POS
Australia	Louise Keller Urbancinefile	"Tragedy and comedy are joined at the hip in this quirky and inventive film that looks at the world from a unique point of view"	POS
Canada	Peter Howell Toronto Star	"'Micmacs' is like a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd movie where everybody is Buster or Harold (...) There is more invention in a single minute of Micmacs than there is in two hours or more of your average summer multiplex shaker (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS

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