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About Adam
Metascore
64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
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  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Emanuel Levy
    90
    Unlike "Four Weddings," which ultimately was moralistic and conservative in its message --—About Adam is a frolic free of any judgments, and marked by Stembridge's sparkling wit.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    80
    Writer-director Gerard Stembridge keeps the amoral laughs bubbling.
  3. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    80
    Kate Hudson's accent is spot-on, and she brings her megawattage to good use on the Gershwin standard, "The Man I Love."
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    A sly romantic comedy made with wit and style.
  5. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Bill Gallo
    80
    Quick-witted, spicy Irish comedy.
  6. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    75
    Delightfully reflect the abandonment of the old image and way of life.
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  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    75
    Surprisingly sweet and infectious.
  8. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    70
    Hudson is ebullient, never cutesy, and her accent stays in tune.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    Seems refreshing, even mildly subversive.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    63
    Thanks to Hudson and the other women, it's a moderately beguiling date movie.
  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    63
    In a moralistic time, About Adam is something of an anomaly, as it airily sticks to its pro-naughtiness agenda.
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  12. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    60
    Simply a pleasant diversion rather the paean to crazy-in-love classics it would so like to be.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Sweet, likable and consistently engaging, if so insubstantial that it's always on the verge of blowing away.
  14. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    60
    While the film strives to prove its cool, it's also built on the insufferably antique idea that some flattery and a good fuck are all any woman needs.
  15. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    With few laughs and no real poignancy, the movie's success rests squarely on Adam's oft-naked shoulders.
  16. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    50
    I might have liked About Adam more if its supposedly irresistible hero -- and the movie itself -- hadn''t been so smirky.
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  17. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    42
    Cotton candy story with an acrid aftertaste.
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