| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A snappily fun Mantrap Movie, as films about husband-hunting gals are known, is that rare hybrid of romantic comedy and Super Bowl.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Jonathan Perry
In addition to the film's two extremely likable stars, the strong supporting cast features a who's who of rising African-American actors.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie does have charm and moments of humor, but what it doesn't have is romance.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
The movie still manages to unearth laughs, some of them pretty big, especially once Shanté's program is under way.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Writer-director Mark Brown ruptures and restores the realism in this romantic comedy with ease, dispensing earnest wisdom with a little tongue in cheek instead of undermining it with a lot of irony.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
A sassy romantic battle of the sexes with a refreshing African-American slant.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
Gary Dowell
An endearing romantic comedy that pokes fun at the ridiculous things people do for love.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Women may appear a bit smarter here, but both sexes are portrayed as superficial and silly.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The best scenes are the ones that Fox shares with Tamala Jones, Wendy Raquel Robinson and the full-figured Monique as her sassy girlfriends. There's a ripe, crackling spontaneity when these women get together.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Along comes Two Can Play That Game to demonstrate that antifeminist silliness is color-blind.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
Ultimately feels somewhat overprocessed, and its humor is a little too broad at times -- it probably crosses the acceptable threshold of penis and boob jokes.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
There probably isn't another actress anywhere who could make that corny self-advertisement work. And there definitely isn't another actress who could make such an overbearing heroine worth watching for an hour and a half.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
A likable, featherweight romantic comedy that hardly asks to be taken seriously, but its very triviality is, in some ways, quite significant.
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| 38 |
New York Post
The characters are so cartoonish, it's hard to care on any level -- except that it wastes such talented performers.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
Aside from the shamelessly promoted corporate sponsors, nobody emerges from this game a winner. But the biggest losers are the ones who paid good money to watch it.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Ultimately neither freewheeling enough to work as a diverting entertainment nor barbed enough to strike home as any sort of social commentary.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Doesn't anyone get sick of this same old routine?
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| 30 |
New Times (L.A.)
Too bad very few of these high jinks are actually funny -- the outtakes at the end of the film suggest a more relaxed ensemble vibe that the film proper was unable to retain.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Throws its obvious predecessor, "Waiting to Exhale," into relief, making that 1995 syrupy revenge fantasy look positively Shakespearean next to the moronic Two Can Play That Game.
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| 10 |
Village Voice
It's the summer's most disingenuous movie -- a real achievement in a waning season that included Tim Burton's "Banana Splits" remake.
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| 10 |
Variety
Few recent movies have conceived their central female character more contemptuously -- a fanatic for a lifestyle that appears to have come from the bestselling "The Rules."
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