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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 42The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerRio offers the uncomfortable spectacle of 10 different filmmakers mostly failing to produce a sense of place that can be sustained over 10 minutes, much less multiple senses of place that can be stitched into an interesting patchwork.
- Vincente Amorim weaves each short together with lots of sweeping panoramas of the city, and the end result feels less like a collection of love stories and more like a bland tourism ad.
- 40TheWrapTricia OlszewskiTheWrapTricia OlszewskiThe bulk of these stories just aren’t very engaging — or even good.
- 38RogerEbert.comChristy LemireRogerEbert.comChristy LemireRio, I Love You feels like little more than an extended tourism promotion video.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe only people sure to love this concoction are those working for Rio's tourism bureau.
- 30Village VoiceKenji FujishimaVillage VoiceKenji FujishimaEven more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love" franchise might leave viewers wondering whether these needed to be set in Rio de Janeiro at all.
- 30The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergTourism is what it has to sell.
- 25The Film StageJacob OllerThe Film StageJacob OllerSome of these shorts are worth the ten or so minutes they take, but none of them justify wasting time on Rio, I Love You.
- 12Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneThe hygienization of Rio into what at times looks like a soulless Southern California town is so scandalous it feels like a spoof of the Cities of Love series.