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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangIt’s not like “The Artist” was gritty, but Populaire is so cotton-candy breezy it makes the Best Picture-winner look like “The Panic in Needle Park.”
- 60EmpireEmpireOffers plenty of easy nostalgia and Duris charm.
- 60Time Out LondonCath ClarkeTime Out LondonCath ClarkeIt's très chic and charming but a bit disappointing when you see where it's headed.
- 60Total FilmTom DawsonTotal FilmTom DawsonNo prizes for guessing who ends up with whom, but the colourful retro designs and the leads’ sparkling chemistry help to Tipp-Ex over some of the predictability.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIf anything distinguishes director Régis Roinsard’s take on well-trod material, it’s his Technicolor-bright widescreen palette (recalling many a late-’50s pillow-talk romance without a hint of snooty irony) and energetically game cast.
- 50Slant MagazineNick McCarthySlant MagazineNick McCarthyCandy-colored to a potentially cavity-causing degree, the film is a bubbly regurgitation of retrograde romantic comedy tropes and reactionary sexual politics.
- For all the earnestness with which the filmmakers replicate the muted colors and attitudes of the post-war era, they ultimately fail to say anything truly interesting about either the past or the present, resulting in a work that feels as superficial as it does slick.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawYou'll need to have a very sweet tooth for this, and it makes light of those difficult sexual politics that Mad Men attacked with such fierce satire.