| 100 |
Washington Post
Misanthropic, cruel, hostile, corrupt, blasphemous and basically pretty evil. I loved it.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
Ryan has an edge that is extremely becoming…This is her best work yet.
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| 75 |
USA Today
This twisted romance possesses the soul and edgy atmosphere of an independent film but not quite the conviction.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Karyo -- a big star in France but little known in this country -- has Steve Martin's knack for keeping his dignity while doing outrageous slapstick.
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| 75 |
ReelViews
A deliciously nasty, dark comedy.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
It's a tribute to Robert Gordon's nifty screenplay and Dunne's cheerful way with digression that Addicted to Love, even as it broadens into screwball, also deepens into a character study full of surprising left turns.
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| 70 |
Variety
Leonard Klady
Warm performances that result in hilarity without guilt.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
One of the most inventive romantic comedies to come around in some while.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
Laura Miller
Has the same relationship to the dark emotions it glosses that Disneyland's Jungleboat Cruise ride has to an actual excursion down the Amazon.
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| 60 |
Empire
Ryan and Broderick, while individually first-rate, don't combine as sexily as they ought, making the inevitable outcome a little too pat in an otherwise genre-bucking affair.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Ryan's abrasive and rather creepy character is something of a departure for her.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It is always a problem in a love story when the rival seems more interesting than the hero, and that's what happens here.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The story is as contrived as it is comical.
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| 50 |
Time
A fine--but not entirely uninteresting—mess. [2 Jun 1997, p. 74]
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Just a little shy of twisting the knife that extra twist.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
Eve Zibart
Like a cute version of Jekyll and Hyde.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
Commits the cardinal sin of too many modern movies: It never gives the audience a clue why any of these people were ever attracted to one another in the first place. [30 May 1997, p. 54]
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| 20 |
The New Yorker
Sarah Kerr
A desperately misbegotten screwball comedy.
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| 0 |
The New York Times
Ms. Ryan's lean, eagle-eyed golden girl is enough to curdle milk.
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