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  • Starring: Jonah Hill, Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega
  • Summary: While researching a role as a supermarket manager, a major movie star (Freeman) befriends a feisty store clerk (Vega), and the initially mismatched pair soon discovers common ground.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 20
  2. Negative: 3 out of 20
  1. An amiable demonstration of how two charismatic actors and a relaxed writer-director (Brad Silberling) can squeeze an enjoyable movie out of practically nothing.
  2. Reviewed by: Jessica Reaves
    75
    Moves at an agreeable, meandering pace but never loses its verve or its sharp humor.
  3. Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    60
    Interplay between a jaunty Freeman as an unemployed movie star and the magnetic Paz Vega as a no-nonsense grocery store checker gives pic humanity and lift.
  4. I don't know if it's ickier to assume that writer-director Brad Silberling (Moonlight Mile) thinks the culture-clash jokes he pushes in 10 Items or Less are charming because they're earnest, or because they're tongue-in-cheek. Either way, this sale is void.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Negative: 3 out of 8
  1. JordanD
    9
    This movie is hugely under rated. It just proves that it does not take millions of dollars and a "safe" plot line to be something great. ill admit it started off slow but it came back with laughs and an ending that makes one at first object to it but then realize how classic is was. Expand
  2. FranciscoP
    7
    Interesting to watch Freeman work. Cute movie. More like an appetizer than a meal. But, like the salt and pepper calamari at PF Changs, it�39;s a pretty good appetizer. Expand
  3. NoelD.
    4
    This movie didn't really seem to have much of a point. Morgan Freeman comes off like he's off his medication. I also find it hard to believe Paz Vega has no friends. It comes off as a 90-minute touch-feely slice of life that is supposed to make us feel good, but as a movie it completely lacks. I almost turned it off after about 20 minutes. Even Jonah Hill manages to be unfunny. Expand
  4. This movie is boring as hell...actors is very good, but storyline is empty shell with nothing inside...waste of time. I didn't find any point of this movie. Expand

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