| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
The dialogue is hip, natural and observational.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Brightly sidesteps the cliches that cling to the genre like barnacles and reinvents a lot of the old moves.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
The Dutch born Janssen sparkles serenely.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
It's sharply chiseled but not cynical, and that's a delicate line to walk.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Isn't riveting, but it's diverting enough.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Generally rises above the easy clichés you find in most such movies.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
An endearing comic roundelay about the can't-commits.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
Not quite original enough to make much of a dent in the marketplace, but it shows its stars to advantage.
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| 60 |
Slate
I also thrilled to identify with a male lead (Jon Favreau) who's as brilliant and crazy and self-absorbed as Woody Allen or Albert Brooks but whose self-absorption doesn't shape and color everything else in the movie.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
Janssen proves herself an actress of delightful range.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It comes down to a pair of appealing performers in a series of bad-relationship skits.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Might be fun for younger teenagers who want to be reassured that people in their 30s still behave like younger teenagers.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Slight but bright and charming.
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| 50 |
Variety
Valerie Breiman’s exceedingly slick feature is one of those cutesy items in which the characters talk about nothing but relationships and themselves.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Feels thoroughly canned.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
What we have here is the cinematic equivalent of a dead shark.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Watching the movie felt like any number of bad blind dates.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Breiman brings nothing new or insightful or even all that clever, for that matter, to the familiar questions of love and sex.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Flimsy little comedy unworthy of its portentous title.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
There's nothing worse than a sub-par Woody Allen knockoff.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
The script negates anything heartfelt with its flippant, almost vulgar tone.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Slick, polished to perfection, derivative and stripped of any of the real quirks or idiosyncrasies that make a romantic comedy fly.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
A romantic comedy whose sour take on romance never manages to be comic.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
Failed romantic comedy.
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| 10 |
Village Voice
All solipsistic jaded-Cosmo patter.
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| 5 |
Mr. Showbiz
Love & Sex is nothing but pain and suffering.
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