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===Critical response=== ''French Kiss'' was released in United States on May 5, 1995,<ref name="tcm-misc"/> and received mixed reviews. In his review in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Mick LaSalle wrote that director Lawrence Kasdan "takes what could have been a fluffy comedy with lots of plot complications and picturesque scenery and instead puts his focus on the important things: on the characters played by Ryan and Kline and how they happen to be feeling." LaSalle also applauded Kasdan's sense of subtle comedy: {{blockquote|With his attention in the right place, Kasdan comes up with ways of using the setting to make emotional points. For example, though the film doesn't go out of its way to make you notice, Ryan keeps missing out on getting to see the Eiffel Tower. It's behind her as she's riding in a car, or she's turning toward it a second after they've turned out the lights. She doesn't know what she's missing—until eventually she does.}} LaSalle found Kline's performance "extraordinary" and that he not only perfected the accent but the "speech rhythms and the manner as well." LaSalle also praised Ryan's comic timing, which "continues to delight."<ref name="sfgate"/> In her review in ''The Washington Post'', Rita Kempley, giving it a mixed review, wrote that the film "isn't as passionate as the title suggests—in fact, it's facile—but Ryan and Kevin Kline, as her attractive opposite, are irresistible together." Kempley applauded the acting performances: {{blockquote|Kline's hilariously hammy l'accent puts Inspector Clouseau's to shame; his performance is the zaniest since ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''. Ryan's Kate is even pickier than the heroine in ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]'' and melts just as endearingly. She and Kline spar convincingly; Doris Day and Rock Hudson had sexier scenes, but none this romantic.<ref name="washingtonpost"/>}} In his review in the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', a disappointed Roger Ebert wrote, "The characters in this movie may look like adults, but they think like teenagers." Although he acknowledged that the film was not without its charms—Paris and Cannes being "two of the most photogenic cities on earth"—Ebert concluded, "Kline's Frenchman is somehow not worldly enough, and Ryan's heroine never convinces us she ever loved her fiancé in the first place."<ref name="ebert"/> In her review in ''The New York Times'', Janet Maslin called the film a "romantic comedy with barely a laugh or a spark, and with a pace that makes it feel longer than Mr. Kasdan's previous work, ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]''."<ref name="nytimes-maslin"/> Review aggregation website ''[[Rotten Tomatoes]]'' gave the film a score of 48% based on reviews from 27 critics with a weighted average of 5.6/10. The consensus summarizes: "''French Kiss'' is effervescent like good champagne but its spirit fizzles in a film that isn't as intoxicating as its stars."<ref>{{Citation|title=French Kiss (1995)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/french_kiss|language=en|access-date=2022-09-14}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], another aggregator, the film holds a weighted average score of 50 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |title=French Kiss |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/french-kiss/ |access-date=October 7, 2023 |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[Fandom, Inc.]]}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/ |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=CinemaScore |language=en-US}}</ref>
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