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75This is not a great movie, but it's very watchable and has some good laughs. The casting of Aniston is crucial, because she's the heroine of this story, and the way it's put together there's danger of her becoming the shuttlecock. Aniston has the presence to pull it off.
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75Easygoing but surprisingly likable comedy.
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75T. M. Griffin's script is imaginative and clever.
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60Aniston gets marooned here: Her comic instincts are muted by all the identity angst, yet there isn't sufficient dramatic material into which she can sink her teeth. Costner strolls through this role with disarming ease.
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58Sets up a situation so weird, it's almost weirder that Rob Reiner directs it as a cookie-cutter romantic comedy.
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50The movie has that fatal triptych that is becoming Reiner's romantic-comedy signature: drippy sentiment, zany scenes that trivialize the characters and a horror of adventure.
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50Not much to laugh about -- or shout about for that matter.
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50The story, though initially intriguing, is dicey. A seminal social satire has been spun off into a passionless romance and a wan comedy.
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50An unfocused mess, with poor chemistry all around and an ending that's as firm and satisfying as an overcooked noodle.
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50The real weak point is Reiner's listless direction, with too few scenes that almost gel and too many that fall flat.
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50This movie proves to be the year's most anti-romantic comedy.
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50This Rob Reiner comedy jogs along pleasantly enough to the finish (Costner is charming as always in over-the-hill-ruin mode), which entails a less-than-shattering insight about love and marriage.
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50Like the film itself, Ruffalo and Aniston exacerbate a bad, unfeasible idea with clumsy execution, exerting a whole lot of energy and effort for very little payoff.
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50As muddled in most respects as its title, Rumor Has It... begins with an intriguing premise...but it devolves into a bland romance spiced with too little comedy.
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50Under the circumstances, MacLaine, Costner, and Ruffalo acquit themselves well.
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42Draggy pastiche of tired gags and half-baked homilies.
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40Inspired by The Graduate it may be, but despite Aniston's charm, this confused comedy will not be seducing anybody.
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40The resulting film is a muddled, melodramatic, sort-of remake of "The Graduate."
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38A lump of coal, sculpted from the kind of high-concept idea screenwriters find scribbled on bar napkins after nights of heavy drinking.
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33A mess -- all high concept, stranded performances, and no laughs.
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30I suppose Rumor Has It could be worse, though at the moment I'm at a loss to say just how.
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30A jarring amalgam of sitcom goofiness and uncomfortable ooginess.
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25Following "Derailed," this comic turd makes it two strikes for Jennifer Aniston. She looks great, but her acting is board-stiff.
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25If only someone had recognized the inherent vileness of the premise, we might not have been subjected to this hideous Rumor at all.
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Reiner, who came in to rescue this picture after the original director was fired, once gave us "When Harry Met Sally," but seeing him work now is like watching Willie Mays hobble around in a Mets uniform during that pathetic final year when he hit .211.
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25An embarrassing romantic comedy from Rob Reiner.
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20Maybe it's the terrible lighting, but Friend-out-of-water Aniston spends most of this flick looking like she needs Dustin Hoffman to bang on the glass and get her out of this mess.
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10Stay away: Everything about the movie is rinky-dink, from its phony, lifeless dialogue to its drab, shabby sitcom look to its choppy editing, all of which can wear on you after 95 minutes that come to feel like an eternity.
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0Fans of "The Graduate" should skip this strange comedy.
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[Anonymous]2I've never seen The Graduate but my instincts tell me that this movie is a lackluster spin-off and should in no way represent the original.
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LarryT.1A real dud. They took a decent premise and turned into a sitcom that lasted an hour and a half.
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Matthew8a movie with alot charm thanks to Aniston and Costner... Rob Riner delivers a nice romantic comedy.