Management
Metascore
50 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 4 out of 26
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    38
    The film is a failure if it can't convince us that these two people belong together. It can't, and barely tries.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    Sometimes a cute-stalker movie can win the audience's heart. Management only makes you ponder the line between true love and a restraining order.
  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    33
    It's dull and crude and silly and without a lick of quality.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    25
    Isn't it time Steve Zahn grew up? Ever since the '90s, this walking quirk of an actor has pushed his dazed solipsistic zaniness (he's like Michael J. Fox’s hillbilly cousin), but he's 41 now, and it no longer looks cute on him.

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5.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 4 out of 6
  1. ChadS.
    6
    Romantic comedies often corroborate on the New Wave notion that "the history of cinema is boys photographing girls." What filmmaker Jean Luc Goddard meant, without apology, was that film is, and always will be, largely a patriarchal construct. In other words, the guy, more often than not, gets his girl. For girls, it's harder. No matter how many fish sticks and tater tots Dawn Wiener(Heather Matarazzo) heats up for Steve(Eric Mabius) in Todd Solondz's "Welcome to the Dollhouse", the hunky lead singer of her older brother's clarinet-driven band will never give the plain girl a fighting chance. The cinema is rigged so ordinary men can pursue, and win over, women who are clearly out of their league. With a tradition of conquering underdogs on his side, Mike tells Sue, "You have a great butt," which should earn him a drink tossed in his face, but instead, the professional woman bends over, like the Maggie Gyllenhaal character in Steven Shainberg's "Secretary". Even though Sue is more accomplished than Mike, the submissive position that she assumes, has the unintended effect of revealing how the male hero always has control over the girl he's pursuing, regardless of how great the odds are stacked against him. "Management" is just a little more brazen about the fix than most films. According to this movie, groping works; stalking works too...on both coasts. What "Management" lacks is a genuine romantic moment. Skydiving into a pool is funny, but not romantic, as is serenading Sue with a Bad Company song. When Sue puts her hand on Mike's butt, the film romanticizes her own objectification. At the very least, Mike should tell Sue that she's beautiful.… Full Review »
  2. Deadsarow
    2
    This movie sucks. I am still trying to understand what the point of this wanna-be cute movie is. Throughout the romantic "comedy", I was confused. The way you know a movie is bad is when it confuses the hell out of you without trying to. Horrible movie. Wouldn't recommend it to a horse.… Full Review »
  3. johnny2cents
    3
    Painful. This movie tries really hard to be quirky and many other things butt succeeds at none. You would have to be on LSD to believe that this coupling would ever be possible. It is way too far fetched from reality to accept even in a movie that is trying to be ...well I'm still not sure what it wanted to be. Think it may have needed a little more Woody, I mean the Harrelson character.… Full Review »
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