Love & Sex

San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson

The dialogue is hip, natural and observational.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Brightly sidesteps the cliches that cling to the genre like barnacles and reinvents a lot of the old moves.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The Dutch born Janssen sparkles serenely.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

It's sharply chiseled but not cynical, and that's a delicate line to walk.

Miami Herald Sara Wildberger

Isn't riveting, but it's diverting enough.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Generally rises above the easy clichés you find in most such movies.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

An endearing comic roundelay about the can't-commits.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Not quite original enough to make much of a dent in the marketplace, but it shows its stars to advantage.

Slate David Edelstein

I also thrilled to identify with a male lead (Jon Favreau) who's as brilliant and crazy and self-absorbed as Woody Allen or Albert Brooks but whose self-absorption doesn't shape and color everything else in the movie.

LA Weekly F. X. Feeney

Janssen proves herself an actress of delightful range.

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

It comes down to a pair of appealing performers in a series of bad-relationship skits.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Might be fun for younger teenagers who want to be reassured that people in their 30s still behave like younger teenagers.

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

Slight but bright and charming.

Variety Todd McCarthy

Valerie Breiman’s exceedingly slick feature is one of those cutesy items in which the characters talk about nothing but relationships and themselves.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Feels thoroughly canned.

Chicago Tribune Marc Caro

What we have here is the cinematic equivalent of a dead shark.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Watching the movie felt like any number of bad blind dates.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Breiman brings nothing new or insightful or even all that clever, for that matter, to the familiar questions of love and sex.

USA Today Mike Clark

Flimsy little comedy unworthy of its portentous title.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

There's nothing worse than a sub-par Woody Allen knockoff.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

The script negates anything heartfelt with its flippant, almost vulgar tone.

Film.com Ernest Hardy

Slick, polished to perfection, derivative and stripped of any of the real quirks or idiosyncrasies that make a romantic comedy fly.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

A romantic comedy whose sour take on romance never manages to be comic.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Failed romantic comedy.

Village Voice Jessica Winter

All solipsistic jaded-Cosmo patter.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Love & Sex is nothing but pain and suffering.