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88Comedies open every week. This is the kind I like best. It grows from human nature and is about how people do their jobs and live their lives.
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Jan 17, 201180Every one of its cues might be tele-prompted, but this is an assured, likable comedy. Ford is as good as he's been in ages, but the stand-out is McAdams. If there were any justice, the movie would send her stellar.
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80Ford is hilarious and brooding, deeply wrinkled and deeply intimidating. He's got the best lines, courtesy of screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (of the repellent "27 Dresses" and the much better "The Devil Wears Prada").
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80Breezy and enjoyable.
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75Patrick Wilson rounds out the cast as McAdams' love interest, but his presence seems necessary only to classify Morning Glory as a romantic comedy. The heart of the movie is really McAdams' wonderfully contentious relationship with Ford.
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75Rather like a four-hour episode of "Today": painless enough, leavening superficiality with substance, allowing you to watch and still do the laundry without missing anything vital.
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75The acting is so exact and the timing so crisp that it delivers precisely the satisfaction you'd anticipate.
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75The film is at its best when it is at its most goofy, at times coming close to the laugh-aloud outrageousness of Will Ferrell's "Anchorman."
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75Some of the on-camera bitchery between Mr. Ford and Ms. Keaton is laugh-out-loud witty. For the most part, Morning Glory is a delicious movie that will make you jump for joy.
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75Mainstream moviemaking at its most proficient, with a zippy script, comfort-food casting and a breakout performance by a deserving star.
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70This often-witty baby-of-"Broadcast News" tries hard to be liked, like the TV fluff it's built around. The news is that, often, it succeeds.
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70This is a brash, lightweight backstage comedy that looks lovely, doesn't insult its audience and uses its stars, both young and old, to terrific effect.
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67Only a spunky cast prevents the film from being as tedious as a test pattern.
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67Where Broadcast News mourned the trivialization of the nightly news, Morning Glory asks you to learn to stop worrying and love the trivia.
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63A tart, terrific comedy that gives Harrison Ford his best and funniest role in years.
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63It includes more than a few clever lines, and boasts a stellar cast, including the underutilized Diane Keaton.
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63In rhythm, humor and performance, Morning Glory is, at best, sporadic.
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63Morning Glory is itself a work of extreme fluff, a lightweight bauble about the morning-show wars that floats on the updrafts of character comedy until it charmingly self-destructs in the final act.
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63If the romantic comedy Morning Glory clicks with audiences, the McAdams factor surely will be the reason why.
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60Morning Glory is a cut above most other recent light fare, but not a prime cut.
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60Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn't always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam.
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60A passably amusing romantic comedy with a laugh-strewn script that's almost undone by the hard sell of an enterprise that drills every emotional beat into your head.
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50McAdams is typically effervescent here, but she can't rescue this weak comedy from a wooden Ford, whose stick-up-the-ass character is unimaginatively goosed by screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna.
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50Morning Glory had the capacity to be a smarter, tarter picture, though it's not bad as is: well-acted and ingratiating, with at least one howlingly funny sequence.
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50Even Mary Tyler Moore's sunny but vulnerable Mary Richards or Tina Fey's Liz Lemon seem more fleshily real than Becky.
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Nov 10, 201050Yes, it's "The Devil Wears Prada," redux.
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50Someone apparently forgot to tell Harrison Ford he was starring in a comedy when he was cast in Morning Glory.
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50Roger Michell directs it as though it were an uproarious comedy, but the laughs are light, and the story's real appeal lies in its behind-the-scenes look at the manners and politics of morning television.
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50This just in: Morning Glory can't decide whether to skewer the morning news or wallow in its pap.
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Nov 9, 201050The only love Morning Glory truly cares about is the passionate but sexless amour fou between a girl and her work.
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50A barely serviceable romantic comedy.
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50It merely recycles 1987's "Broadcast News" with only a single reference to YouTube.
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Nov 6, 201050A genially midrange if overlong romantic comedy.
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42Morning Glory isn't targeting the dumbing down of TV news. It's pandering to the audience that craves the dumbness.
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40Morning Glory has a depressed, rancid air. [22 Nov. 2010, p. 141]
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40This charmless movie thinks it can soft-sell its date-night love story and its media meta-jabs without people feeling they've been bamboozled on either count.
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40It's a slight movie that makes "Broadcast News" look like "All the President's Men" in comparison.
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30This production is a mess for many reasons, most of them having to do with its frantic efforts to be funny.
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