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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Picks up where the early Franois Truffaut and his comrades-in-cinema left off -- with a playful, liberatory style, and a song (actually, a few) in his heart and on his actors' lips. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Dans Paris provides a brooding, poetic echo - an after-dinner mint to a lasting meal. Read full review

  • 70
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    There's a vivid comedy to this family's emotional state of siege, an easy confidence to Honor's camerawork, and plenty of beautiful bodies. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    Dans Paris makes the city seem like the ideal place to be clinically depressed. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    Inside Paris is that rarity, a genuinely honest, unpretentious and delightful, small film, alternately sober and effervescent, steering clear of either heavy-going philosophizing or dreaded whimsy. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice |

    Christophe Honor's Dans Paris is both a floppy, joyful tribute to the French New Wave and an inspired retelling of "Franny and Zooey." Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Dans Paris will delight aficionados familiar with its myriad references, and there's no denying the appeal of Duris and Garrel. But once the source of the boys' primal wound is revealed, the whole enterprise comes to feel as mechanical as the Bon Marche window display that serves as one of the film's plot points. Read full review

  • 40
    L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor

    Clich, or experiment with clich? Really, it's not worth sticking around to find out, since the action mostly involves the monotonous Romain Duris standing around in his underpants or sitting on the toilet banging on about why love has fled. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Moody, mannered and supremely irritating, Christophe Honor's Dans Paris plays like a pastiche of French cinema clichs through the ages. Read full review

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