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Wow! Such a good movie.

the audience applauded

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is not one movie but a lot of short films. I'm not sure, but I think some of the short films have two or more parts, with the first part shown earlier in the movie and another part of the film shown later. In the credits, each short film has two sets of its own credits, one showing the actors, writer and director, and the other showing other information. For some odd reason the writer is shown twice.From what I can tell, most or all the actors do a good job and the short films are well-written. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them could be Oscar-nominated as short films on their own. I didn't see any credits before I saw the movie, so I didn't recognize most of the actors, but there are lots of big names. There are many different styles of music, most of which I enjoyed. At the prom I was pleasantly surprised to hear sophisticated ballroom dance music, followed by the junk the kids actually enjoy. I did enjoy watching them dance to the so-called music.This is not for the whole family, though some individual films might be. I heard the sound go out a number of times.My favorites were the one where the high school student is set up with a date to prom with by a pharmacist, and the one where Cloris Leachman and Eli Wallach play a bickering couple walking through the city to the beach on their 63rd anniversary. The prom date storyline includes an unpleasant surprise for the boy when he meets the girl, an awkward encounter with the girl he was going out with (played by Blake Lively), and an unexpected ending to the story.I will try to describe the other stories that I remember. In a scene where everything is orange, Ben follows a beautiful girl played by Rachel Bilson to a bar and tries to pick her up. She is sweet and nice to him, but then Garry walks in. He is married but she is his mistress. He is also a skilled pickpocket. Later, the girl shows up in the blonde wig from her photo. I'm not sure it's Ben who was playing basketball with some guys from the 'hood, but the girl and the man have a pleasant encounter. The second story is pleasant and well-done, with everything blue or brown. A Hasidic Jewish woman is about to get married and she conducts a business transaction with a Jain man. They each talk about their culture and negotiate over the price of whatever is being sold. After that, we see the wedding with no dialogue or even audio other than music, with lots of men with beards and hats. The bride and groom seem to be enjoying themselves. The Jain man is shown driving somewhere but I'm not sure we ever see him again.There is a story where a white girl born in Mali gets in a Haitian driver's cab. They have a nice conversation. Then they are joined by another man. A composer of music for anime meets a girl online. She is sweet but he has never seen her. Finally they meet, and I recognize the distinctive face of Christina Ricci. Another scene in a restaurant is orange, but I'm not sure what happens. A young woman on the subway is narrating her story, but we only hear her talking. There is a man she will meet later.A retired opera singer moves into a nice hotel. The young foreign- born bellhop is disabled but determined to his job. They have several nice conversations before a mysterious white light appears outside the window. Another older hotel employee seems to say everything the younger man said. An artist who wasn't born in the United States but looks like Jay Leno if he didn't bother to shave wants to paint a beautiful Chinese woman, but she is hesitant. The woman's boss is very strict and doesn't seem to care about her. There is some interesting Chinese music and a surprise at the end. Also in Chinatown, a white woman brings in her sexiest clothes to be dry-cleaned. The dry-cleaner seems uncomfortable with the situation, but at least they are speaking Cantonese and the older man can't understand them, right? We see him later in a nice scene with a middle-aged but attractive woman smoking outside a restaurant. This one  has a surprise ending.In a park, two white women see a Hispanic man with a white girl at a fountain. They compliment him on what a good job he does as a "manny". Then the man returns the girl to her mother, where we find out things are not as they seem.     This is all that I can remember, but there are a couple of other stories that didn't make enough sense for me to understand.This is a worthwhile film. You are sure to find something you enjoy.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I really don't understand this movie. To the best of my knowledge, it is about portraying different relationships and different cultures in New York. However, the viewer is not given the chance to get to know any of the characters, as new characters continuously throughout the movie are introduced, while the old ones disappear. Thereby, the movie never develops a story and every scene becomes dull and uninteresting. In my opinion, this movie is not a comedy, nor is it about romance. But maybe I am missing something. I must admit, I was expecting something to be compared with e.g. "Love Actually", but there was nothing love actually about this whatsoever. Further, I cannot comment on the acting as each actor/actress basically only had one or two scenes in the movie. In summary, this movie was not for me at all.

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.)