| 63 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
A sporadically hilarious, acid-tongued romp through the darker sides of romance that refuses to back down.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
There's more than a hint of self-pitying male-castration fantasy in writer-director Jeff Franklin's portrayal.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A mean-spirited comedy...that steals the rampaging-psycho-chick formula from ``Fatal Attraction'' and tries to make it funny.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Rod Dreher
A lame TV sitcom with big-screen ambition that's almost touching in its hopelessness.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Anita Gates
A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Cate McQuaid
It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Love Stinks is what bad network TV comedy would be like if there were no censorship and less talent.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Another frivolous product of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks.
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| 30 |
Film.com
A gyno-phobic fantasy about the date who won't go away.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire.
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| 29 |
Mr. Showbiz
A drearily over-cynical farce.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Lowbrow humor is one thing...but Love Stinks sinks the bar beyond comprehension.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
There's gangsta rap with funnier insights into the opposite sex.
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| 25 |
Portland Oregonian
Other (Specify)
Whatever stinks in this theater, it isn't love.
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| 20 |
Variety
Lacks the comic style or abandon to make its cynical turn on male-female relationships anything more than a short-lived stunt.
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| 20 |
Film.com
A painfully unfunny movie.
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| 20 |
TV Guide
Has a sour undertone that strangles its cheap laughs.
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| 16 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
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| 0 |
Chicago Tribune
Stewart's insistently ironic delivery of every line becomes an irritant in a movie that is already monstrously irritating.
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| 0 |
Entertainment Weekly
Rancid, misogynist comedy.
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