| 80 |
Washington Post
The movie's entertaining for some wickedly funny situations and witticisms.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
While both leads are appealing enough, it's the stuff on the sidelines that keeps All Over the Guy entertaining.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Surprisingly, this didactic and self-consciously clever romantic comedy isn't annoying -- it's refreshing, moving, and at times quite funny.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Davis, with a nicely turned and witty screenplay from Bucatinsky, freshens up the familiar predicament by having her two lovers recount the affair to a stranger.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
A romantic comedy of wit and substance that actor-writer Dan Bucatinsky and director Julie Davis have moved gracefully from stage to screen with a change of title and sexual orientation.
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| 70 |
Variety
Lightweight but likable romantic comedy about two mismatched gay singletons who are, of course, made for each other.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Snappy but sappy romantic comedy.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
It's still trite and a little too cutesy for its own good. Gay or straight, the cliches remain, but not to a stultifying degree.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
A delight when its comic elements are in high gear.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The film leaves an acrid taste with the viewer who sits through its long and winding tale of tortured courtship.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
This modest picture is distinguished by some marvelously bitchy dialogue.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Little more than a screenful of boy meets boy, boy meets baggage, boy loses baggage.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
If you want to watch a gaggle of pretty faux-neurotic people hang out and throw quips, you're probably better off watching "Friends."
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| 40 |
New Times (L.A.)
The redeeming features of All Over the Guy are the consistently engaging performances and some genuinely funny dialogue.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
May be free of gay stereotypes, but it's absolutely riddled with romantic cliches. It's hard to see the progress in that.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Some kind of equality has been achieved when it is impossible to distinguish heterosexual clichés from homosexual ones.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Sitcom humor substitutes for wit, and tedious angst supplies the drama.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
The movie means well, but neither its emotions nor its performances ring very true.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Indulges in some of the crudest Jewish stereotypes seen in a recent movie, right down to the crack about every Jewish girl having a nose job.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
A painfully earnest case of generic romance spiced with queerness.
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