Love Stinks
Metascore
23 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 23 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 18 out of 23
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  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Phoebe Flowers
    63
    A sporadically hilarious, acid-tongued romp through the darker sides of romance that refuses to back down.
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  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Rod Dreher
    50
    A lame TV sitcom with big-screen ambition that's almost touching in its hopelessness.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    50
    A mean-spirited comedy...that steals the rampaging-psycho-chick formula from ``Fatal Attraction'' and tries to make it funny.
  4. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: John Patterson
    50
    There's more than a hint of self-pitying male-castration fantasy in writer-director Jeff Franklin's portrayal.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    40
    A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too.
  7. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Staff [Not Credited]
    38
    Love Stinks is what bad network TV comedy would be like if there were no censorship and less talent.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Cate McQuaid
    38
    It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
  9. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Sarah Hepola
    30
    Another frivolous product of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive.
  10. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    30
    A gyno-phobic fantasy about the date who won't go away.
  11. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    30
    Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks.
  12. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    30
    Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire.
  13. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    29
    A drearily over-cynical farce.
  14. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    25
    There's gangsta rap with funnier insights into the opposite sex.
  15. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    25
    Lowbrow humor is one thing...but Love Stinks sinks the bar beyond comprehension.
  16. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Other (Specify)
    25
    Whatever stinks in this theater, it isn't love.
  17. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    20
    Has a sour undertone that strangles its cheap laughs.
  18. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    20
    A painfully unfunny movie.
  19. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    20
    Lacks the comic style or abandon to make its cynical turn on male-female relationships anything more than a short-lived stunt.
  20. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    16
    An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty.
  21. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    10
    This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
  22. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    0
    Stewart's insistently ironic delivery of every line becomes an irritant in a movie that is already monstrously irritating.
  23. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    0
    Rancid, misogynist comedy.

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