to much". Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it "a three-P movie: pleasant, pretty and predictable. One might add piddling". Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan said, "the fact that we know exactly what will happen [...] is not what's wrong with A Good Year. After all, we go to films like this precisely because the satisfaction of emotional certainty is what we're looking for. What we're not looking for is a romantic comedy made by individuals with no special feeling for the genre who stretch a half-hour's worth of story to nearly two hours". Comparing it to Under the Tuscan Sun, Love Actually, and Roman Holiday, Jessica Reaves of the Chicago Tribune said The Good Year was "unbearably sweet and emotionally lifeless". British film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian that it was "a humourless cinematic slice of tourist gastro-porn". In a book-length study of Ridley Scott's film career, Adam Barkman summarized the general critical response to A Good Year as "lightweight as far as most critics were concerned" and that it "offer[ed] little in comparison to the combined commercial and critical success of the next venture, [American Gangster], the biopic of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas". Accolades References External links Filming locations in Provence Filming locations with real photos 2006 films 2006 romantic comedy-drama films 20th Century Fox films American romantic comedy-drama films British romantic comedy-drama films Films about wine Films based on British novels Films based on romance novels Films directed by Ridley Scott Films scored by Marc Streitenfeld Films set in France Films set in London Films shot in France Films shot in London 2000s French-language films Peter Mayle Scott Free Productions films Trading films 2006 comedy films 2006 drama films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films 2000s British films