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Magic in the Moonlight

2014

Woody Allen

Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver ...

6.1

18,519

Comedy. Romance Set in the south of France in the 1920s during the glamorous Jazz Age, it’s a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium (Emma Stone) as a fake.. What follows is a series of events that are magical in every sense of the word and send the characters reeling.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Melancholy and doubt may seem like gloomy qualities to blend into an amorous romp. But that shot of gravity is what makes 'Magic in the Moonlight' memorable and distinctively Woody Allen. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"A high-spirited bauble that goes down easy thanks to fleet comic pacing, a surfeit of ravishing Cote d'Azur vistas and the genuinely reactive chemistry of stars Colin Firth and Emma Stone."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"A pleasant, but forgettable, trifle. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Mr. Allen has had his ups and downs over the years. Rarely, though, has he put a story on screen that manifests so little energy, so little curiosity about its own ideas and situations."	NEG
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Breezy and funny and perfectly pleasant."	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"A master stroke of enchantment from one of the few legitimate cinematic geniuses of the modern cinema, with a nimble and tender performance of enormous elegance and charm by Colin Firth (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The crabby but pretty 'Magic in the Moonlight' is a well-thumbed playing card (...) not one of his fully good ones (...), not one of the whiffs. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Owen Gleiberman BBC	"Magic in the Moonlight is Allen's most gratifyingly airy concoction in a while, but it's also a comedy that insists, in the end, on making an overly rational case for the power of the irrational. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Magic in the Moonlight' belongs to the pool of lesser Allen comedies, yet Firth and Emma Stone (...) bring all the zany energy they can muster."	NEU
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"There's nothing inspired in Woody's annual update. (...) The story feels shapeless, un-tailored."	NEG

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