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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe good news about Claude Lelouch's And Now Ladies and Gentlemen -- there's no bad news -- is that the man who made the sublimely superficial "A Man and a Woman" almost four decades ago has grown in wisdom and artistry, but hasn't lost his love of glossy surfaces.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe core relationship is what makes the movie with this ill-advised title a well-advised choice.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovAll told, it’s two-plus hours of trinkets and baubles and clever repartée beneath a perfect summer sun and beside the whitewashed walls of Fez, not inconsequential but as ephemeral as the sky above.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is so extravagant and outrageous in its storytelling that it resists criticism: It's self-satirizing.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray ConlogueThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray ConlogueFor those who don't know his (Lelouch's) work, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen will be fun because his style is unique and unpredictable. But for those who have known him in better form, this one is not a must-see.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA movie best suited for a lazy afternoon or a languorous night, particularly if you're a Francophile. Charming, glamorous, emotionally suggestive but slight, it's full of beautiful and colorful people.
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAccording to common usage, the French word stupide comes closer to silly than to dumb, which is how I might rationalize my affection for this harebrained, obvious, but euphoric tale.
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe tone moves from gently jocular (Irons appears in drag) to mystically morose (a female shaman tries to ululate up a cure), and that creates a jarring effect from which the movie does not recover.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickOne part cabaret, one part travelogue, one part comic heist, one part romantic tearjerker -- and all pretty tedious.
- 20Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanAwash in the kind of pretension that only the French can get away with.