New Year's Eve
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
9
Negative:
20
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDec 7, 2011
New Year's Eve is dunderheaded kitsch, but it's the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandDec 8, 2011
It would be inaccurate to say there are plots in New Year's Eve. There are a number of setups, and these get shuffled through faster than a card dealer in Atlantic City. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 8, 2011
I always enjoy Elizondo; he has a way of elevating some pretty lame banter, and thanks to New Year's Eve he has his way all over again. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie OgleDec 7, 2011
New Year's Eve is not unbearable. It's not bad, but it's not good, either. It delivers exactly what you expect: pretty faces, shallow romance and a mythical fanaticism about an event in a friendly Manhattan unblemished by hyper-vigilant security measures, obnoxious drunks or New York Jets fans. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerDec 8, 2011
The cast, at least on paper, is formidable, if ill-used. Read full review
40
MovielineAlison WillmoreDec 8, 2011
Less a film than a product, New Year's Eve is so carefully calculated as to be, in its own way, admirable. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 8, 2011
An inferior retread of Marshall's equally contrived "Valentine's Day," only dressed up with coats and confetti. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondDec 8, 2011
Even with a big name cast that includes three Oscar winners - Halle Berry, Robert De Niro and Hilary Swank - New Year's Eve is at best a pleasant diversion. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelDec 7, 2011
It is the cinematic equivalent of a greeting card: Both the sentiment and the laughs are plentiful, cheap and forgettable. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew BarkerDec 6, 2011
Few of the plot strands connect to one another, much less resolve themselves with any degree of wit or daring. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinDec 7, 2011
It's safe to say to no idea was nixed on the set of New Year's Eve for being too cheesy or sentimental; if anything, ideas were nixed for not being sentimental or cheesy enough. Read full review
30
NPRLinda HolmesDec 9, 2011
At its heart, Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve is soup made of rocks. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenDec 8, 2011
A depressing two-hour infomercial pitching Times Square as the only place in the universe you want to be when the ball drops at midnight on Dec. 31. (Believe me, it's not.) Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenDec 6, 2011
The result proves to be as appealing and effervescent as a flute of flat champagne. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayDec 8, 2011
Behind all the noisemakers and funny glasses, New Year's Eve - and everyone in it - is dead behind the eyes. Read full review
25
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsDec 8, 2011
The sanitized setting and sappy script are so littered with cardboard characters and crass product placements that you'll mourn for the muggers and porno theaters that De Niro cursed in "Taxi Driver." Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 8, 2011
Innocuous and dull. Read full review
25
USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]Dec 8, 2011
Sitting through New Year's Eve is like attending a crowded party filled with pretty people who have nothing to say. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisDec 8, 2011
New Year's Eve is fun in the way that eating at a buffet is fun. It's two hours of foods that have nothing to do with each other piled high on a plate because it was too cheap to resist. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDec 7, 2011
New Year's Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the last grain has trickled through the hourglass of cinematic sludge. How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do? Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallDec 7, 2011
Through it all, Marshall sticks to his rose-colored principles: You gotta have hope, listen to your heart and take leaps of faith. Plus a new one: Parker should never make it through a movie without at least one pair of fabulous shoes. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesDec 12, 2011
Even with the bar lowered, this seems appallingly bad, a lazy assortment of weak punch lines, sentimental music cues, and trite situations. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesDec 7, 2011
Mostly, New Year's Eve is appalling stuff, a poorly constructed, sentimental sham. Auld lang suck. Read full review
20
Time OutMatt SingerDec 6, 2011
Director Garry Marshall continues his systematic defilement of society's most romantic holidays with another rom-com built - and executed - like a '70s disaster movie. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Dave McGinnDec 9, 2011
New Year's Eve. It's big and shiny and crowded and no matter how much you might look forward to it, it never lives up to the hype. The movie is even worse. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineRichard LarsonDec 7, 2011
The lesson to learn from watching Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve, a predictably insufferable, self-congratulatory cash cow designed to be ingested and then happily discharged without a second thought by gullible moviegoers who just don't know any better, is that we live in a time without economic dignity, a time in which we must be ready to do just about anything for a paycheck. Read full review
10
TimeMary PolsDec 12, 2011
New Year's Eve may be the ugliest movie of the year, from the garish lighting to the heavy make up and bad costumes. Read full review
10
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonDec 6, 2011
A movie so excruciating that it makes its predecessor, "Valentine's Day," seem like "Nashville" in comparison. Read full review
0
New York PostSara StewartDec 9, 2011
I have zero reservations about telling you how much I loathed New Year's Eve, a soul-sucking monument to Hollywood greed and saccharine holiday culture. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversDec 8, 2011
Bad beyond belief. Read full review
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