| 80 |
Variety
A hugely enjoyable romantic comedy that dares to suggest that love can bloom -- and, more important, hormones can rage -- after 50. Smart, sassy and slickly packaged.
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| 70 |
Film Threat
By turns touching, raucously amusing, uncomfortable, and, yes, even sexy, Never Again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre; a pleasant surprise of a film that delivers so much more than its description leads one to expect.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable, and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre, implausible behavior.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
However insulting the script is to the formidable talents of Clayburgh and Tambor, they turn in Shinola performances.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Ben Kenigsberg
A comedic semi-rehash of "An Unmarried Woman" (1978) with older leads, Never Again sports a good-hearted story but doesn't know how to tell it.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
The opening of writer-director Eric Schaeffer's sloppy, sporadically funny adult sex comedy Never Again shows how an undisciplined filmmaker can sabotage his best intentions.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
There are moments, too, where the forced hipness falls aside and the two lead characters just plain relate, realistically and maturely, with a seasoned playfulness that is truly charming.
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| 40 |
New Times (L.A.)
This is not exactly original, but Schaeffer and his cast manage to make it tolerable.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Schaeffer fails to develop the relationship beyond clichéd signpost events.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
It's a pleasure to see Jill Clayburgh on the big screen in a story about middle-aged love and sexuality, but she can't rescue this alternately trite and implausible comedy.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Youthful audiences won't be attracted to a love story between two 54-year-olds in the first place, and mature audiences will be turned off by the language, not necessarily out of prudishness, but out of its sheer crassness.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Kudos to writer-director Eric Schaeffer for doing a sexually graphic romantic comedy about fiftysomethings without being patronizing or cutesy. With both heart and guts, he honestly depicts how that moony-eyed, falling-in-love rush of endorphins is the same at 55 as it is at 15.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
A good-natured but trivial Manhattan romantic comedy.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A wretched comedy about middle-aged romance.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Clayburgh is the most dignified thing about this dreadfully overwrought, often preposterous romantic comedy.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
The germ of a better film lies in that joke, but Schaeffer doesn't quite dig it out. Instead, we get painfully unfunny scenes that make us think that when it comes to writing comedy, Schaeffer should stick to his own rule: never again.
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| 20 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Clayburgh and Tambor demonstrate genuine chemistry, but the film keeps diluting it with awful attempts at comedy and worse attempts at drama.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
The movie, like its lovers, is really two films smushed together in the faint hope that sheer incongruity can grind out laughter.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in. Christopher and Grace probably deserve each other, but that doesn't mean that any of us do.
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| 16 |
Entertainment Weekly
Schaeffer's howler of a romantic comedy, which presents itself as a valentine to Clayburgh even as it keeps dreaming up fresh ways to humiliate her.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
A meet-cute whimsy set among divorced fifty-somethings in New York, it blunders on toward oblivion, excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic.
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| 0 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along.
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