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43 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 13
  3. Negative: 3 out of 13
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    Mackenzie delivers that story as a blend of sex comedy, dark satire, and morality tale that recalls various aspects of "Shampoo" and "Less Than Zero" and "The Graduate," but has a couple of nifty surprises and a poisonous sting in its tail that's all its own.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    63
    Props to Kutcher for going to surprising, painful places. There's something haunted in his portrayal that hits hard and sticks.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Scott Knopf
    60
    Kutcher gives a surprisingly proficient performance as does Heche who is the shining star of the film.
  4. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: James Bradshaw
    50
    One of the best things about this film is that ultimately nobody in it is attractive.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    50
    The whole movie is pat -- very pleased with itself for being so up front about the ways of a 21st-century man-whore.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Glenn Whipp
    50
    If only Spread were half as entertaining as a Van Halen video.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    More skin is shown in Spread than in most Hollywood movies. But despite twitches of insight into its characters and their world, Spread refuses go more than skin deep.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: James Greenberg
    40
    It comes off as an unpleasant, unrealistic morality tale. Loaded with music and pretty bodies, the film has a chance to lasso a young, indiscriminate audience of Kutcher fans.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    40
    Although Kutcher deserves some ­credit for trying to spread his professional wings, it quickly becomes clear that he's in over his head.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    40
    With "Shampoo" and "American Gigolo" now distant memories, the time evidently seemed ripe for another Hollywood stud movie. Despite Ashton Kutcher's believability as an older woman's kept boy, Spread isn't a patch on those previous films.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    A witless homage to "Shampoo" and "American Gigolo" that's brain-dead on arrival.
  12. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Stephen Garrett
    20
    Lamely tries to update "Breakfast at Tiffany's" for the Twitter set. Too bad Truman Capote's not around for rewrites.
  13. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    20
    Spread becomes a sloggy, tepid comeuppance tale.
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