Critic Reviews
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Rolling Stone
Thornton plays this low-ball farce with deceptive, masterful ease. Appreciate it.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
The movie's "Beverly Hillbillies" humor had me laughing moderately, and by the end I wasn't even looking around to make sure no one noticed.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
This half-baked production sat on Miramax's shelf for a couple of years. It's no more done now than then, merely more stale.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
Not good enough to overcome its status as damaged goods, which is almost a shame, since audiences will miss Billy Bob Thornton's best performance, and hairpiece, in years.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Another one of those road comedies where Southern roots are supposed to make boring people seem colorful. If these characters were from Minneapolis or Denver, no way anyone would make a film about them.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Chris Hewitt
It's never a good sign when a movie's credits include: ''Tony Orlando as himself.'' But the crooner is the highlight of the dreadful Waking Up in Reno.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Its jokes aren't funny. Its sloppy direction comes courtesy of Jordan Brady, who made "The Third Wheel," another reportedly failed comedy gathering cobwebs at Miramax.
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| 20 |
Variety
A hillbilly romantic comedy in which the hillbillies show up but the romance and comedy never do.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Director Jordan Brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors -- particularly Theron, a very game and able comedienne -- by shoving them into every clichéd white-trash situation imaginable.
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Los Angeles Times
The one thing that can be said of Waking Up in Reno is that it's rigorously consistent. Every note rings false.
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