40 Days and 40 Nights
Metascore
53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 33 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 33
  3. Negative: 3 out of 33
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    0
    So eyeball-gougingly awful that you're tempted to give up movies for Lent.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Charles Taylor
    30
    It's too mild to be crass; it's clumsy. Lehmann has made what amounts to an anti-sex sex comedy, the first youth sex comedy made to be enjoyed by those creepy abstinence teens.
  3. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    30
    The sensibility of the movie is naggingly adolescent -- less erotic than squeamish and giggly. [11 Mar 2002, p. 92]
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User Score
7.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 29
  3. Negative: 4 out of 29
  1. Jedi_Jettson
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I liked it due to its pleasure from a sex comedy and has a fantastic romantic story between the two main characters but in the end, it's not so much of a comedy after you know who rapes Josh Hartnett.… Full Review »
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