Metacritic Film

Two Ninas

Starring Cara Buono, Amanda Peet, Bray Poor, Linda Larkin, Ron Livingston, and Jill Hennessy

MPAA RATING: R for language

Castle Hill Productions
Romance
88 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters January 26, 2001

A struggling New York City writer (Livingston) feels unlucky in love and in his professional life, until he meets two beautiful Ninas (Buono, Peet).

WRITTEN BY
Neil Turitz

DIRECTED BY
Neil Turitz

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

41 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 Los Angeles Times
It is amazing how writer-director Neil Turitz, a seasoned journalist, has taken the familiar ingredients of the spiky New York dating game movie and made them seem so fresh and original, filled with individuals acutely detailed and compassionately observed.
63 New York Daily News
Intermittently amusing.
60 Rolling Stone
Turitz keeps it comic and romantic in just the right doses. Looking for a fun date flick? You found it.
50 Village Voice
Manages to gracefully step out of the way of its own referential overload.
50 LA Weekly
Peet and Poor make strong impressions in smaller roles, but then again, edgy and sexy is easier to make compelling than decent and nice.
40 TV Guide
A likeable, if somewhat whitebread, farce in the Woody Allen mode about love in the big city.
25 New York Post
Should have gone straight to video. It'll be there soon enough.
20 The New York Times
In this elongated, formula-ridden sitcom posing as a movie, the date-weary Manhattan singles exchanging acerbic banter suggest the tougher, far less intellectual offspring of Woody Allen characters drenched in a whiny Seinfeldian dyspepsia.

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