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Metascore
10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIt’s all light as a feather, with Jeremy Leven, the writer and director, landing some good multinational jokes along the way.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreWith this “Girl” and her bicycle, the cute bits, rare laugh out loud moments, occasionally zippy lines and limply obvious farcical predicaments are never more than instantly forgettable.
- 50Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzWriter and director Jeremy Leven’s film is meant to be a trifle, a status which it achieves, but it’s nothing more than that.
- 40The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloThe movie’s ludicrous narrative continually forces its characters to behave like cretins, and even when Leven’s dialogue is tolerable, it can barely be heard over Craig Richey’s aggressively sprightly score.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceGirl on a Bicycle is like Micki + Maude minus the outrage, complexity, or crack timing.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA rom-com whose agreeable individual elements aren't enough to sell the witless contrivance around which they revolve.
- 30Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenJeremy Leven's attempt at old-school romantic comedy, set in a postcard-pretty tourist's vision of Paris, is more of a foolish plod than a weightless rollick.
- 25Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe film turns the miscommunication between cultures into an utterly lifeless romantic comedy best appreciated as a travel guide for first-time tourists to Paris.
- 20New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsWhat wants to be a screwball comedy is run over by preposterous character motivation and a clunky plot.
- 12RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonRogerEbert.comOdie HendersonThe word convoluted does no justice to just how poorly designed Girl on a Bicycle is. It is also stereotypical, unfunny, unromantic, absurd, sitcomish, insulting to several European ethnicities and a slave to what Roger Ebert used to call "The Idiot Plot Syndrome."