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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe lovely Audrey Tautou and sad-eyed Gad Elmaleh are perfectly cast as a gold digger and the poor sap who loves her, but the real star of Pierre Salvadori's larky, Lubitsch-esque farce is France's impossibly chic Cote d'Azure.
- 80Wall Street JournalWall Street JournalCalls to mind Lubitsch's "Trouble in Paradise" and beguiles all the way from the parade of umbrellas decorating the opening titles to the closing credits.
- 80Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoLos Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoA cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, or so the saying goes, but the unadulterated joy Irène takes in throwing open the closet door to show Jean how this gold digging is done is positively infectious.
- 80Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonTautou is a delight, as always, using her bubbly personality to comic advantage. And Elmaleh makes for a sort of poor man's Buster Keaton, perpetually stressed but refusing to surrender, no matter how much damage he sustains to himself or his wallet.
- 75New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsDirty, kinda-rotten scoundrels Elmaleh and Tautou make an engaging pair.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleStop laughing long enough, and you'll see that it's a picture about compromised lives and love for sale. But no one who watches Priceless will stop laughing for that long.
- 70VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonCo-scripter/helmer Pierre Salvadori serves up an enjoyable riff on genuine romance versus the pay-as-you-go variety, in crowd-pleasing, exportable picture.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoicePriceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it develops into something considerably more interesting.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe movie is an amusing ball of fluff that refuses to judge its characters’ amoral high jinks. Winking at the vanity of wealthy voluptuaries and hustlers playing games of tainted love, it heaves a sigh and says welcome to the human comedy.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoPriceless provides lightweight, predictable entertainment that will make you yearn for the Tatou of yesteryear.