page_title: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Cast and director of the film "You're going to meet a tall dark stranger" at the Cannes film festival. Left to right&#160;: Lucy Punch, Josh Brolin, Woody Allen, Naomi Watts and Gemma Jones Français&#160;: L'équipe du film "Vous allez rencontrer un bel et sombre inconnu" au festival de Cannes. De gauche à droite&#160;: Lucy Punch, Josh Brolin, Woody Allen, Naomi Watts et Gemma Jones
context_page_description: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 English-language Spanish–American co-production comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts, Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Pauline Collins. It premiered on 15 May 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot.
context_section_description: The film has received generally mixed reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 46% based on reviews from 129 critics, with an average score of 5.4 out of 10. Its consensus states: "It's sporadically amusing, and typically well-cast, but You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger isn't one of Woody Allen's more inspired late-period efforts."Metacritic, which assigns a rating of 0-100 of top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 51% based on 28 reviews.
  Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "A serviceable Woody Allen comedy that trifles with its characters rather than engaging with them."A. O. Scott called Allen the "great champion of cosmic insignificance" and said the film is served up with a "wry shrug and an amusing flurry of coincidences, reversals and semi-surprises. There are hints of farce, droplets of melodrama, a few dangling loose ends and an overall mood of sloppy, tolerant cynicism."
  Two reviews expressed opposing viewpoints about where the film stands among Allen's films shot in London. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly stated "The film is notable, if that's the word, for being the first movie Allen has made in London that is every bit as bad as his most awful New York comedies, like Anything Else and Melinda and Melinda."
  David Gritten of The Daily Telegraph wrote "It sounds like damning with faint praise, but Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is easily the best of his recent London-based films... a fanciful fable... with an idealised London as its setting."Mark Kermode also considered it the best of Allen's London films, but believed Allen was just "treading water".
  Mark Asch at The L Magazine named it his 10th best film of 2010.
caption: Lucy Punch, Josh Brolin, Woody Allen, Naomi Watts and Gemma Jones promoting the film at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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