| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Up with this smart, funny movie." more... |
B+ |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Down With Love is no better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but that is a compliment, I think." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...seems more like an extended TV sketch with a bad case of the cutes." more... |
C |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"OK, cute has its place in movies, but sometimes you just gotta say, enough already." more... |
C+ |
| E! Online |
"...go for the clothes, and stay for the cotton-candy silliness." more... |
B |
filmcritic.com
Kevin Smokler |
"It’s very funny, even sweet at times, but not a drag-my-boyfriend-to-it kinda movie..." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck |
"...never really decides whether it wants to be an all-out parody or an affectionate recreation." more... |
C |
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...you have to wonder what he (director Payton Reed) and the screenwriters, Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, thought they were parodying." more... |
C- |
New York Post
Megan Lehmann |
"...an entertaining diversion that unfortunately fails to fully live up to its promise." more... |
B- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...for the most part, intelligent and amusing..." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...light, funny, and clever." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"Down With Love is all surface, and its mocking tone grows grating." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...a very smart, very shrewd movie..." more... |
A |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a good-natured but fairly clumsy and increasingly tedious lampoon." more... |
C+ |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...a ball of fluff that draws smiles, a chortle or two, but not many belly laughs." more... |
C+ |
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