People are voting emotionally.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I expected more. With such good actors, good directors, marvellous photography and a fascinating location… it could have been a real masterpiece. The first time I clicked into this film, it was the middle of it, and I saw the part about the opera singer who checks into a beautiful hotel...and now after I have seen the movie in its entirety, I still do not understand the handicapped young bellboy in this story somehow this story is not concluded here, and remains an enigma. There is another story that is quite vague with Orlando Bloom.The other short stories of people living in New York City: a story about pickpockets; a tale of a beautiful young Hasidic bride; a writer describes his sexual fantasies quite vividly; an artist is taken by a beautiful Asian young lady; a composer has to read a great novel but can't do it himself; two women connect through camera images; a dancer tenderly attends to a little girl in Central Park, then gives one of the most beautiful dances seen on screen; two people enjoy a cigarette outside a restaurant desiring to add change and flavour to their lives; an old couple takes a walk through New York traffic all the way to the beach on their anniversary; a teenager goes to prom with a beautiful girl in a wheelchair; a retired opera singer wishes to have violets and gets them. This movie proves that there can be too much of a good thing. There were other films entwining the lives of different people in the same city or around theworld, this one takes the cake in trying to stuff it all into one stocking. A chopping is required. That is why I did not give it the 9 points it should have been given if only for some good directing and impressive performances throughout the film.

With all the talent involved in this project, I find it hard to not say that this film ends up mostly feeling like a waste of good talent. It's a collection of sometimes intersecting stories, all created by different directors and writers. Overall it feels disjointed and I suppose it obviously should, but even the New York theme itself does not really come across very well through most of the stories; On more than one occasion I felt it seemed as if the dialogue was overly forced into making the stories relate better to the New York setting.The Brett Ratner directed segment was pretty funny, and a few of the other stories had some good moments as well.I'm a pretty strict rater, I do think that all the films I rate a 4 out of 10 are worthy of one viewing; So this film fits into that category. My advice is to just not have your hopes too high going into it, and you will enjoy at least some of it.To me the most interesting segment was surprisingly enough the Natalie Portman written and directed portion. She also acts in another segment in which she did not write and direct. The part she did write and direct I found to be the easiest segment to enjoy, as there was layered depth within her story, even given the short amount of time she had to work with. Her part of the story I would even venture to say seemed the most mature, and at least equally as thought provoking as any of the other segments. This leaves me in great anticipation of her future projects, as Natalie has only just begun to enter into the writer/directorial aspect of film-making. Her next directorial project 'A Tale of Love and Darkness' is well on my radar now, and it is also certainly a huge issue(Israeli/Palestinian State) she plans to take on in her first real feature debut as a director. You have to at least admire her ambition, even if the project doesn't turn out so good. That's the one very encouraging thought I took away from 'New York, I Love You'; That Portman shows real promise in perhaps actually one day becoming a truly great writer/director. I don't use those words lightly either, I realize fully that truly great writer/directors are extremely rare, but she has certainly given us a strong hint of her potential here. I hope and believe that perhaps this is just an early sign of great things to come.4/10

i mean it i picked this up at the DVD store it was in Bradley coopers 5 in one DVD collection.its got a huge cast & many directors & teams worked on it.and scarlet directed a scene which they cut it .many stories with different themes they each tell & explain it to the viewer but the minus point begins rising when the screen play changes its game as the stories are hanging in between each director with a story try too hard to mention & give something but fails.and as soon as i begin watching this i saw Maggie q she player a hooker not just saying because i am a fan of her but she really did good action flicks so thought she would do similar.also irfan khan a greatest actor who has to go through this crap,he deserved better other then these two all actors including Natalie port-man cant act and give excitement to audience.overall this film tried to fall in creative art genre with love,sadness & emotions same old style with many directors touch why?only to gain a cult status & some critics might dig it.well i am disappointed in it.for once tell me what did they tell about new york that world don't know something thats not written on internet about it.damn these people.i am not against character meeting then going away but in this case the characters were more like some c grade cartoonMy Rating is 2/10 a good idea not gone bad it was never good it was awful from the start.please don't try hard to show intelligence because all in this end will be left a product built by info.my point is take inspiration its not bad but use your brain don't copy paste even the exact idea i mean if you are giving me a coconut cookie yes give me but put some new stuff into it not just effort.i hope you folks get what i am trying to say

The producers of "Paris, je t'aime" bring us "New York, I Love You", another collection of short films ostensibly revolving around a city, in this case New York. The film was marketed as a ode to romance, love and the Big Apple. In reality it says little about either love or New York city. What it instead seems to conjure up is the world of early film noir. Jules Dassin's "The Naked City", which ended with he line "there are eight million stories in the Naked City", seems to be the unconscious springboard, "New York, I Love You" treating us to a kind of romanticised, cutesy fetishizing of alienation, lonely hearts and fickle human collection amidst a cold, impersonal, urban backdrop. And so the film is best when it's contrasting the yearnings of New Yorkans with a more existential ambivalence. Humans yearn, the city doesn't care. And as love and fantasy depend on a certain amount of anonymity – you as spectator write or project your yearnings upon an object – the vignette-heavy style of "New York, I Love You", which doesn't allow us to learn much about its characters, itself exploits a kind of romantic anonymity.While most anthology films suffer from conflicting moods and styles, "New York, I Love You" has some semblance of unity. It differs from its predecessor in that its short films, each by a different director and each revolving around a different set of characters, are loosely tied together rather than exist separately. The result is a kind of Robert Altman styled portmanteau or mosaic, the stories smoothly overlapping and bleeding into one another. Like Altman's films, the impression is that of a wandering camera or disembodied narrator teasing out different characters and eavesdropping on bits of plot. It's also one of the few New York films to portray the city as being heavily class divided, multi ethnic and inhabited by a rainbow of age groups.If "New York, I Love You" works well as a whole, its actual individual short stories are a mixed bag. Shekhar Kapur serves up the nice tale of a bellhop and a retired opera singer, Joshua Marston gives us a glimpse at a bickering old couple (Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman) and several other vignettes give us snippets of SoHo, and various interesting Chinese, Indian and Jewish locals. Many of the other films, however, are either overly cutesy or pretentious.8/10 - Worth one viewing.