New Year's Eve
Metascore
22 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 30
  3. Negative: 20 out of 30
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Dec 7, 2011
    25
    New Year's Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the last grain has trickled through the hourglass of cinematic sludge. How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do?
  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    Dec 8, 2011
    0
    Bad beyond belief.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Dec 8, 2011
    25
    Innocuous and dull.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Dec 8, 2011
    30
    A depressing two-hour infomercial pitching Times Square as the only place in the universe you want to be when the ball drops at midnight on Dec. 31. (Believe me, it's not.)
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    Dec 8, 2011
    25
    New Year's Eve is fun in the way that eating at a buffet is fun. It's two hours of foods that have nothing to do with each other piled high on a plate because it was too cheap to resist.
  6. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    Dec 12, 2011
    20
    Even with the bar lowered, this seems appallingly bad, a lazy assortment of weak punch lines, sentimental music cues, and trite situations.
  7. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    Dec 8, 2011
    25
    Behind all the noisemakers and funny glasses, New Year's Eve - and everyone in it - is dead behind the eyes.
  8. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    Dec 7, 2011
    33
    It's safe to say to no idea was nixed on the set of New Year's Eve for being too cheesy or sentimental; if anything, ideas were nixed for not being sentimental or cheesy enough.
  9. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    Dec 7, 2011
    20
    Mostly, New Year's Eve is appalling stuff, a poorly constructed, sentimental sham. Auld lang suck.
  10. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    Dec 8, 2011
    25
    The sanitized setting and sappy script are so littered with cardboard characters and crass product placements that you'll mourn for the muggers and porno theaters that De Niro cursed in "Taxi Driver."
  11. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    Dec 6, 2011
    30
    The result proves to be as appealing and effervescent as a flute of flat champagne.
  12. Tampa Bay Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Persall
    Dec 7, 2011
    25
    Through it all, Marshall sticks to his rose-colored principles: You gotta have hope, listen to your heart and take leaps of faith. Plus a new one: Parker should never make it through a movie without at least one pair of fabulous shoes.
  13. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    Dec 6, 2011
    10
    A movie so excruciating that it makes its predecessor, "Valentine's Day," seem like "Nashville" in comparison.
  14. Time
    Reviewed by: Mary Pols
    Dec 12, 2011
    10
    New Year's Eve may be the ugliest movie of the year, from the garish lighting to the heavy make up and bad costumes.
  15. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Staff [Not Credited]
    Dec 8, 2011
    25
    Sitting through New Year's Eve is like attending a crowded party filled with pretty people who have nothing to say.
  16. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Dave McGinn
    Dec 9, 2011
    12
    New Year's Eve. It's big and shiny and crowded and no matter how much you might look forward to it, it never lives up to the hype. The movie is even worse.
  17. NPR
    Reviewed by: Linda Holmes
    Dec 9, 2011
    30
    At its heart, Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve is soup made of rocks.
  18. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Sara Stewart
    Dec 9, 2011
    0
    I have zero reservations about telling you how much I loathed New Year's Eve, a soul-sucking monument to Hollywood greed and saccharine holiday culture.
  19. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Richard Larson
    Dec 7, 2011
    12
    The lesson to learn from watching Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve, a predictably insufferable, self-congratulatory cash cow designed to be ingested and then happily discharged without a second thought by gullible moviegoers who just don't know any better, is that we live in a time without economic dignity, a time in which we must be ready to do just about anything for a paycheck.
  20. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Matt Singer
    Dec 6, 2011
    20
    Director Garry Marshall continues his systematic defilement of society's most romantic holidays with another rom-com built - and executed - like a '70s disaster movie.

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User Score
4.6 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 5 out of 20
  1. Zack2981
    0
    Don't waste your time with a movie that seems merely to have been made to showcase as many name actors as humanly possible. Story? Im still not clear on what that may have been. It's not a movie I would tend to go see but I got roped into it and it couldn't have been more painful. At least each actor I can't stand is only in it for a handful of minutes. It seems like just long enough for them to pick up a paycheck really.… Full Review »
  2. olympians
    4
    Even though New Year's Eve is nowhere near the worst film ever ("The Bounty Hunter" comes to mind) it's true to say that it is not good. However, if you are prepared to play a round of "spot the false teeth" then you are in for a treat! Does anyone in Hollywood have their own teeth these days?. My advice? Go with a bunch of girlfriends but make sure you have a very liquid lunch/dinner first.… Full Review »
  3. GagaForGhibli
    9
    This Is A Good Movie!
    Why All The Bad Reviews?
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