| 75 |
New York Daily News
It provides the first genuine laughs I've had at the movies in this young year.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A subtle but unmistakable aura of jolliness sneaks from the screen.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Light on its feet and reveling in its deviousness, it stays one step ahead of us .
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| 75 |
New York Post
An offer you shouldn't refuse: It's laugh-out-loud, side-splitting funny.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
This Matt Perry vehicle is funnier than anyone could hope to expect.
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| 70 |
Film.com
A funny, frenetic and surprising comedy.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
A sometimes clever, sometimes clumsy movie.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
Edvins Beitiks
It's not easy to wrench belly laughs out of contract killing, but Nine Yards does just that.
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| 60 |
Variety
A crudely funny farce that covers no new ground but sees its talented players running some surefire plays.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
Well-tuned wisecracks and clever plot twists.
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| 50 |
USA Today
A comedy without much zing but with an occasional zing-er that enables the film to pick up . . . well, if not nine yards, maybe an inch or two on the gridiron.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Underwhelming, amusing only in fits and starts.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A pedestrian movie with a predictable romance at its heart.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Wacky and heartless, bloody and silly -- and it ends in a flourish of grotesque sentimentality.
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| 50 |
Time
You're entitled to ask for more than that in a comedy, but these days you're often obliged to settle for a lot less.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Runs out of good ideas long before it's over, falling below "Prizzi's Honor" and "The Freshman" in the dubious genre of contract-killer comedies.
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| 50 |
Slate
A second-rate but bearable black comedy.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Sporadically amusing.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
The film falls short; only Peet goes the whole nine yards.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
A peppy affair that works in fits and starts but is unable to put its successful moments together in any consistently satisfying way.
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| 50 |
Film.com
A dark comedy that squanders its potential and never quite, as they say, suspends disbelief.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
For quite of few of The Whole Nine Yards, it appears that the most clever thing in the movie is going to be the opening credits, monstrous close-ups of the morning toothbrushing routine.
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| 49 |
Mr. Showbiz
It's so plot heavy it never finds its nimble comic rhythm.
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| 45 |
TNT RoughCut
Graham Verdon
It's a sad day when good ideas turn into bad movies.
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| 40 |
Film.com
The script seems flimsy and disposable when compared with such similar takes on the subject as "Analyze This,""The Sopranos" and the upcoming "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai."
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Bruce Willis's marvelous performance as a contract killer only makes everything else about this comedy seem more pathetic.
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| 40 |
Variety
Director Jonathan Lynn sets the pace at several notches below frantic—which only leaves the many tepid gags stranded in a vacuum and the actors compelled to overcompensate.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Goofy and surprisingly slow-moving.
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
(Perry and Willis) are blown off the screen by Amanda Peet and Natasha Henstridge.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
Stupid, empty and -- worst of all -- fantastically boring.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
A convoluted ''dweeb meets the Mob'' farce in which everyone is trying to kill everyone else, but it's the movie that's the real corpse -- albeit a busy, twitching one.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
No matter your standard of measurement, this production falls short.
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| 16 |
Portland Oregonian
A witless, listless muck-up that sends you reeling from the theater with thoughts of suicide instead of a chipper grin.
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