Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris was a very successful and popular movie, not only with the critics, who mostly reviewed the movie favorably, but also at the box office, where it grossed over $56 million, making it one of Allen's commercially most successful films. In Peter J. Bailey's introduction to his and Sam B. Girgus's A Companion to Woody Allen of 2013, Midnight in Paris is treated as a sort of turning point in Allen's more recent oeuvre (2, 11), and several articles in the collection, and elsewhere, offer diverse critical approaches to this generally much appreciated film (for example, Fusco; Polhemus; Schwanebeck).