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Someone Like You
20th Century Fox
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, and for some language
Starring
Ashley Judd,
Greg Kinnear,
Hugh Jackman,
Ellen Barkin,
and
Marisa Tomei
The story of a young woman's (Judd) attempt to explain her heartbreak by using the model of animal behavior. (Twentieth Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Laura Zigman (novel Animal Husbandry)
Elizabeth Chandler
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Tony Goldwyn
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 18, 2001
Video: September 18, 2001
Theatrical: March 30, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The film is a distinct pleasure.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
An altogether enjoyable ride.
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Smart, amiable and well-paced, and director Tony Goldwyn brings to it an all-too-rare buoyancy and breeziness.

50
Dallas Observer
Andy Klein
The various talents on display aren't enough to overcome the sheer blandness of the material.

50
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
In supporting roles, Ellen Barkin and Marisa Tomei are marvelously light-footed.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
A blah romantic comedy that has the bad taste to force the heavenly Ashley Judd into being an insecure, date-desperate, quirky career gal.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Goes down easily only because Judd and Jackman are eye candy, and because Kinnear and Tomei provide solid comic support.

50
Miami Herald
Sara Wildberger
An oddly flat, quirky romantic comedy.
50
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Starts as light, fluffy fun but becomes so blithely preposterous that it ceases to exist.

50
Film.com
Sean Means
Jackman and Judd are sweet together, so much so that you wish they were in a fresher movie than this.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
As a movie, it knows little about men, women or television shows, but has studied movie formulas so carefully that we can see each new twist and turn as it creeps ever so slowly into view.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Soft and predictable -- which might be OK if there were more laughs and insight.
50
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Could hardly be more predictable.
50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Someone Like You is from Hollywood's bottomless box of cliches.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A so-so romantic comedy.

33
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It was originally called ''Animal Husbandry,'' and while the producers were throwing away that title, they might have done well to chuck the movie along with it.

30
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
Sexist, plot-hole-riddled movie equates women with cows and men with bulls.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Another dim adaptation of a bright comic novel.
25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
This chick flick never should have made it out of the incubator.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's a romantic comedy with insights into sex and relationships that are old and obvious.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
So witless, sit-com shallow and bad in every way that it's just not worthy of much discussion.

20
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The movie is trite like the ocean is big.

20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Heaven forbid a Hollywood romantic movie have any narrative surprises.

20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A romantic comedy as lamely generic as its title.

20
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Another insulting women's comedy.

16
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Surprisingly bland even within its dubious genre of "chick flick."
10
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Chandler's script has, by my count, exactly one sort-of-funny line and not a single scene whose comic possibilities are successfully exploited.

10
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A gooey romantic comedy that sticks to everything except its principles.

0
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
It's cheap and it's lowdown, and to those responsible for this exercise in devolution: Honestly, I'm not sure I want to know someone like you.


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