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33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 32
  3. Negative: 14 out of 32
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  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    63
    New York Minute isn't High Art, but it is highly entertaining, especially if you're a member of its target audience.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    60
    Cheerfully disconnected from the real world, bearing a great resemblance to screwball comedies of old.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Lauren Kane
    60
    Director Dennie Gordon keeps the pace brisk, and between makeovers and pratfalls, the girls deliver an easy-to-swallow dose of girl power.
  4. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    58
    Exists for one purpose, and one purpose only: to further the entertainment careers of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's like an Elvis movie for 'tweenagers. That doesn't make the film uninteresting as a pop confection.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Mark Caro
    50
    The cinematic equivalent of Trix. It's just made to be enjoyed by certain folks more than others. Will girls like it? More than their parents.
  6. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    The cast is cute and the action is colorful, but the comedy isn't as captivating as it sets out to be.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    50
    A bit of a slog for anyone not thoroughly Olsenized.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    50
    It lives up to its title, flying by in fast motion. Even the first-wave MTV generation may find the pace exhausting, but this piece of fluff wasn't made for them.
  9. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    As far as acting goes, neither Olsen is ready for Euripides' Medea, yet each projects well enough in their shared big scene.
  10. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Winda Benedetti
    50
    Fun-enough teenage adventure suitable for the whole family.
  11. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Jean Oppenheimer
    50
    Overly broad and silly at times, the film also has an "important" message to pass along to its young viewers.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    50
    Polished and bouncy without being overly mawkish or unduly obnoxious. Above all, it is short.
  13. Empire
    Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    40
    Separately the characters are annoying; together it’s unnervingly like watching one actress playing twins.
  14. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    40
    Reverts to a fire-sale slapstick scenario that includes multiple tumbles into toilets/sewers/ dumpsters; a visit to a Harlem beauty shop that's all homily-spouting mammies and swishy, finger-snapping dandies; and the attempted inducement of a constipated dog's bowel movement.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ben Kenigsberg
    40
    The whole project reeks of vanity, but it doesn't take a Columbia degree to see that any movie where the Michelle Tanners trudge via sewer from CPS to 125th is an instant camp classic.
  16. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    40
    A coy, frantic attempt at screwball comedy, lightly seasoned and more than a little gummy.
  17. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    40
    After a string of direct-to-video excursions, this latest film remains an off-putting assault of too-screwball comedy with glints of pathos.
  18. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    40
    The only thing that really amused me was a subplot involving music and video piracy.
  19. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    The events involving the big speaking competition are so labored that occasionally the twins seem to be looking back over their shoulders for the plot to catch up.
  20. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Lehmann
    38
    In trying to straddle both the grown-up and kiddie worlds with this inappropriately sexualized effort - their first theatrical release since 1995's "It Takes Two" - the Olsens have lost their footing.
  21. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    38
    Plays like "Sixteen Candles" meets "Beetlejuice." Yet for all the film's frantic pace, this plot plods, even for 'tweens at whom this suburban-girls-take-Manhattan fantasy is obviously targeted.
  22. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Pete Vonder Haar
    30
    My only question is, how did they ensnare you, Eugene?
  23. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    30
    An unabashedly pop confection, but it's flat where it should fizz, lumbering when it should skip.
  24. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    30
    It's pretty awful.
  25. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Sara Gebhardt
    30
    Sadly, small humorous bits do not change the movie's generally lackluster tone.
  26. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    30
    The effect isn't just frenetic, unfunny and dull. It's kind of creepy.
  27. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    25
    As human Kewpie dolls, the Olsens' basic function is to try on as many new outfits as humanly possible within the span of 86 minutes (guaranteed to be the longest 86 minutes, New York or otherwise, you've ever spent in the dark).
  28. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    25
    The movie's no good: It's written, directed, performed, photographed, edited, and marketed on a fifth-grade reading level; despite that and its twin stars' saucer eyes and ropy limbs, it's no Muppet movie either.
  29. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Sara Brady
    25
    Despite a lavish budget and one of the most expensive movie sets in the world--the island of Manhattan—they (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) can’t buy love, talent, or a decent script.
  30. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    25
    As coy sleaze goes, the new Olsen twins' movie doesn't match Britney Spears's "Crossroads," but it comes close.
  31. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    25
    The movie may be more bogus than a Gucci bag for sale on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk, but at least the backgrounds are real.
  32. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marrit Ingman
    0
    The kind of winking, disingenuous youth comedy that tries to play it both ways, dangling the twins as fetish objects and then yanking them back on the leash because, you know, this is a family film.
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