| 80 |
Rolling Stone
Count this rehab a success.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Not without missteps and the occasional mouthful of sugar, but it grows on you.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Bullock brings a kind of ground-level vulnerability to 28 Days that doesn't make her into a victim but simply into one more suitable case for treatment.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Bullock gives it her all; she's bristling and alive on screen in a way that she hasn't been since ''Speed.''
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| 75 |
New York Post
Much less mawkish and predictable than you might expect.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Funny, thought-provoking and, yes, touching.
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| 65 |
Mr. Showbiz
A reliably solid treat.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
If only Hollywood studios weren't so addicted to happy, oversimplified endings, the film might leave us shaken instead of slightly stirred.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Far too familiar.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
As ridiculous as it all is...it's somehow eminently watchable.
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| 60 |
Film.com
A reminder of why Bullock became a movie star in the first place.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(Bullock's) performance, and the movie's serious side, soon get lost in an overly slick script.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Sympathetic to the core but not to be believed.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Needs a gritty intervention.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Shows her transition to sobriety as many ensemble stories do--mainly through the development of other characters, the quirkier the better.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mostly it seems forced, pat and didactic.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Begins with such a flurry of promise that it comes as a sharp disappointment when this drug-rehab comedy skids out of control.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Judith Lewis
Has all the force of bubbles on air -- fun to look at, but exciting no emotion deeper than fleeting delight.
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| 40 |
Newsweek
This is a movie afraid of its own shadows.
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
Bullock's character goes through some changes, but she never turns into some unrecognizably serious actress.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
A cutesy, heavy-handed morality tale that contains nary a believable moment.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Thomas's fleet-footed approach suggests the anxious embarrassment of a director in an awful hurry to get it over with.
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| 25 |
Portland Oregonian
So shapeless, pointless and witless a film that it can be explained only by surmising that the people who made it were bombed at the time.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Too glib too often to make much of an impression any way you look at it.
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| 20 |
TNT RoughCut
The saddest part about 28 Days is it's more fun when it's drunk.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
Not even court-ordered rehab could save this stumbling drunk of a picture.
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