| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
I WANTED it to be a typical romantic comedy starring those two lovable people, Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant. And it was. And some of the dialogue has a real zing to it. There were wicked little one-liners that slipped in under the radar and nudged the audience in the ribs.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Knows what it needs to do for both its stars, does it, and doesn't make a federal case about it. I'd watch these two together again in a New York minute.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Bullock is cute. Grant is even cuter. They have the timing and panache of a first-rate comedy team.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Grant's timing is flawless, his delivery is perfection, and he once again demonstrates himself to be the movies' unrivaled master of sophisticated verbal comedy.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Anyone who prefers Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock to Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez is bound to regard Two Weeks Notice and not "Maid in Manhattan" as the better candidate for romantic comedy of the season.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
It is a lovely, amusing diversion from the start, but the depth of its poignancy by the time it's over comes as a surprise.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
Viewers looking for extremely light, romantic entertainment with a guaranteed happy ending could do worse.
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| 63 |
USA Today
If anything, Grant seems to be getting funnier, and he now has the ability to elevate material the way another Grant -- Cary -- did.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
The result may not make for a great adventure, but it's sure a fun ride.
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| 63 |
ReelViews
A movie that is relentlessly inoffensive and completely unoriginal –- two qualities that combine to make it only sporadically charming and rarely (if ever) compelling.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Lawrence just leans on Grant and Bullock, who could have done a movie this breezy from the set of their next one -- where, presumably, Bullock will be playing Medea.
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| 50 |
Variety
An affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration, "Miss Congeniality."
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
Two Weeks Notice is a lot like Trump's tonsorial tower: improbable and overteased.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Lead actors seeming like they're taking it easy is one thing. But a filmmaker trying to construct a smart romantic comedy actually must do some work.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
Grant takes every stupid line and makes it funny, just by underplaying.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
Kate Sullivan
It's not a horrible film -- and it's a fuckload better than some other oops-we-fell-in-love comedies in recent years (e.g., J. Lo's doggy "The Wedding Planner"). It's just not very smart. Deeply rentable.
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| 50 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
Lawrence isn't nearly as adept at romantic comedy as his stars. His rushed jokes and insensitivity to tone are yet more sad reminders that the genre is an endangered species not because we lack new Hepburns and Cary Grants, but because there are no more George Cukors.
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| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Lawrence is fortunate to have appealing pros like Grant and Bullock around to bail him out with romantic chemistry and enough crisply delivered one-liners to survive the barren stretches of script.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
Suffers from poor comic timing and defective romantic pacing.
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| 38 |
Miami Herald
A romantic comedy need not be original to work. It just needs, you know, romance. Something to swoon over. What Two Weeks Notice provides, however, is a lot more messy.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Evokes such deja vu, you'd swear you'd already fallen asleep on the damned thing in the middle of the night on HBO.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Bland comedy romance. Grant and Bullock fail to put across the tired dialogue, and many scenes seem ad-libbed--in desperation.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Has the tired, over-baked feeling of a script that never quite worked but was tinkered with until every ounce of spontaneity or life was hammered out of it.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
It's a botched job through and through, made all the more distressing by Bullock's recent announcement that she's throwing in the romantic comedy towel for a while.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
So busy rehashing rom-com clichés that it shirks the genitive, prelude to other flaws.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
Coarse, cliched and clunky.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Breezing along on gusts of stale air and perky inanities, Two Weeks Notice is a romantic comedy so vague and sadly undernourished that it makes one of Nora Ephron's low-cal strawberry sodas seem as tempting as a Philip Barry feast.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant are distilled to the very essence of their annoying tics and quirks.
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| 20 |
Wall Street Journal
Manages to make its live actors sound -- and even sometimes look -- computer generated. This wan, sluggish comedy wouldn't pass muster as a premium-cable original, but here it is on the big screen.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
A numbingly unfunny romantic comedy. I hated every minute of it
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