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Someone Like You...
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32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 30
  3. Negative: 14 out of 30
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  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    80
    The film is a distinct pleasure.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    75
    An altogether enjoyable ride.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd.
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  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    Smart, amiable and well-paced, and director Tony Goldwyn brings to it an all-too-rare buoyancy and breeziness.
  5. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    50
    Starts as light, fluffy fun but becomes so blithely preposterous that it ceases to exist.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    As a movie, it knows little about men, women or television shows, but has studied movie formulas so carefully that we can see each new twist and turn as it creeps ever so slowly into view.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    50
    Soft and predictable -- which might be OK if there were more laughs and insight.
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  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Sara Wildberger
    50
    An oddly flat, quirky romantic comedy.
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  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    50
    Goes down easily only because Judd and Jackman are eye candy, and because Kinnear and Tomei provide solid comic support.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    Could hardly be more predictable.
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  11. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    50
    A blah romantic comedy that has the bad taste to force the heavenly Ashley Judd into being an insecure, date-desperate, quirky career gal.
  12. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    50
    Someone Like You is from Hollywood's bottomless box of cliches.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    50
    In supporting roles, Ellen Barkin and Marisa Tomei are marvelously light-footed.
  14. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    50
    The various talents on display aren't enough to overcome the sheer blandness of the material.
  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Sean Means
    50
    Jackman and Judd are sweet together, so much so that you wish they were in a fresher movie than this.
  16. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    40
    A so-so romantic comedy.
  17. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    33
    It was originally called ''Animal Husbandry,'' and while the producers were throwing away that title, they might have done well to chuck the movie along with it.
  18. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Frank Lovece
    30
    Sexist, plot-hole-riddled movie equates women with cows and men with bulls.
  19. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    30
    Another dim adaptation of a bright comic novel.
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  20. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    It's a romantic comedy with insights into sex and relationships that are old and obvious.
  21. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    25
    This chick flick never should have made it out of the incubator.
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  22. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    25
    So witless, sit-com shallow and bad in every way that it's just not worthy of much discussion.
  23. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    20
    Another insulting women's comedy.
  24. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    20
    The movie is trite like the ocean is big.
  25. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    20
    A romantic comedy as lamely generic as its title.
  26. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    20
    Heaven forbid a Hollywood romantic movie have any narrative surprises.
  27. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kim Morgan
    16
    Surprisingly bland even within its dubious genre of "chick flick."
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  28. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    10
    Chandler's script has, by my count, exactly one sort-of-funny line and not a single scene whose comic possibilities are successfully exploited.
  29. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    10
    A gooey romantic comedy that sticks to everything except its principles.
  30. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    0
    It's cheap and it's lowdown, and to those responsible for this exercise in devolution: Honestly, I'm not sure I want to know someone like you.
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