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56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 2 out of 15
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    75
    There's just enough neurotic or sharp badinage and Rodeo Drive realism to make it all go down easy.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Marta Barber
    75
    Going Shopping can make a wonderful outing for girlfriends. It's fun.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    75
    Comes as close as any film to explaining what the deal is with women and shopping.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    Going Shopping is sharp and funny about all the things that shopping can mean to the women who live to do it, and even to those who don't.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    70
    As in many of his films, Jaglom establishes a striking intimate rapport with his female subjects, and as the funny and bitter revelations pour forth, an activity that many men may view as something done strictly out of necessity takes on unforeseen narcotic, romantic and therapeutic dimensions.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    It completes an informal trilogy that treats women's anxieties over food, motherhood and now clothes with humor and affection.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    Though intermittently shrill, Shopping does have enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping.
  8. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    60
    Jaglom has the good sense to cast the legendary Lee Grant in an extraordinary role.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    Going Shopping, like Mr. Jaglom's other movies, has enough smart, knowing touches and enough easy spontaneity among its well-chosen actors to make you wish it added up to more than what it turns out to be: a flighty, motor-mouthed cinematic divertissement.
  10. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    50
    Zeroes in on retail mania with a flimsy wire hanger of a premise.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    50
    The message is muddled.
  12. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    50
    Every scene ends with a gag line, punched up by Jaglom's harried intercutting, and threaded through the story are close-ups of women discussing their obsession with new clothes, an exercise that yields its wisdom in the first 20 minutes and then keeps repeating it.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lael Loewenstein
    40
    Item may draw curious women looking to cool their heels, say, while out shopping, but straight men can be expected to stay away in droves and Jaglom regulars will probably wait for the DVD.
  14. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    38
    More cheerful misogyny from writer-director Henry Jaglom.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Akiva Gottlieb
    20
    Henry Jaglom's latest study of contemporary female obsessions among a noxious clan of West L.A. bourgeoisie is of more pathological than cinematic interest.
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