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Alynda Wheat, People: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The 'Love Story' plot doesn't kill the experience entirely -- Gyllenhaal and Hathaway are too charming -- and with his buff bod and her Bratz doll looks, they've never looked hotter." (Read the full review...) 147 words, 11/25/10 Mary Pols, Time: MODERATE "While Hathaway and Gyllenhaal have good chemistry, and director Edward Zwick moves the narrative along nicely, the film is too self-satisfied to be genuinely touching." (Read the full review...) 811 words, 11/24/10 David Germain, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "...despite its dramatic pretenses and far racier sex scenes than the typical studio romance, the movie is as predictable and ultimately as sappy as any other run-of-the-mill Hollywood love story." (Read the full review...) 618 words, 11/22/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...satisfying... Thanks to consistently witty dialogue and multidimensional characters, the film moves along breezily, aided by the strength of Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal's intense chemistry." (Read the full review...) 179 words, 11/25/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...an old-fashioned romance-and-sickness pic, a publicity-grabbing sex pic, an Apatow-lite horny-boys pic, and a liberal satire on pharmaceutical-industry excesses committed in pursuit of pill sales -- all in one." (Read the full review...) 721 words, 11/26/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: MODERATE (cg) "They click, laugh, get naked, get angry, hold back tears, get naked again.... director Ed Zwick seems to be flying around in futility trying to find a place to land." (Read the full review...) 234 words, 11/26/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a mash-up of several strands of movies, melding a less incisive 'Thank You for Smoking' with a steamier 'Love Story.' " (Read the full review...) 484 words, 11/24/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The director is Edward Zwick, a considerable filmmaker. He's essentially working with a screenplay (by Charles Randolph, Marshall Herskovitz and himself) that doesn't work." (Read the full review...) 749 words, 11/23/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an unqualified success.... may be the most honest romance to grace the screens during all of 2010." (Read the full review...) 921 words, 11/23/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: FAIR "...almost works, sustaining its blend of melodrama, low comedy and graceful wit for a good hour or so, but then succumbing to treacle, evasion and maudlin convention at the end." (Read the full review...) 1,106 words, 11/24/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a polished romantic dramedy that won't change your life but might make you a little happier for a couple of hours." (Read the full review...) 374 words, 11/24/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Finally, after years of suffering through Hollywood's predictable pap... a love story that is actually worth falling for, with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal excellent at steaming up the screen..." (Read the full review...) 832 words, 11/24/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "...willfully anti-romance and woefully anti-funny... 100 minutes of bitterness and raunch followed by a few minutes of honeyed niceness... a formula for self-negation." (Read the full review...) 468 words, 11/24/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...a relationship story periodically shoved aside by a lame and lamely raunchy romantic comedy for dummies.... Hathaway saves as much of it as she can: She alone inhabits the credulity-stretching dual personalities of the picture with ease, often movingly." (Read the full review...) 512 words, 11/24/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Audiences will expect sex and raunchy humor along with the mushy stuff. 'Love and Other Drugs' delivers, though it occasionally kills the mood by chattering when it should shut up." (Read the full review...) 323 words, 11/24/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: MODERATE "...gratifyingly slick and manic and mood-elevating.... crazily uneven... It's the sort of movie in which half the audience will be drying their eyes and the other half rolling them." (Read the full review...) 397 words, 11/22/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The director is Edward Zwick, a considerable filmmaker. He's essentially working with a screenplay (by Charles Randolph, Marshall Herskovitz and himself) that doesn't work." (Read the full review...) 749 words, 11/23/10 Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...middlebrow atrocity has been so carefully market-tested -- crudeness counteracts romance, slapstick leavens disease-of-the-week melodrama -- that it needn't even be seen, just administered directly into the bloody mainstream." (Read the full review...) 241 words, 11/24/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "...wants to be mainstream and indie at one and the same time..." (Read the full review...) 591 words, 11/24/10 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a movie narcotic easy to take and, since the effects wear off quickly, even easier to forget." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 11/24/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: VERY GOOD (cg) "...funciona a medias." (Read the full review...) 371 words, 11/26/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...tries so damn hard to win you over that the experience becomes exhausting.... the story doesn't have anywhere to go, and then it's like an entire season of a sitcom you didn't particularly want to see in the first place." (Read the full review...) 202 words, 11/25/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "...a jagged little pill of a movie from baby boomer avatar Ed Zwick.... plays like a grotesque group portrait of pigs at the trough." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 11/24/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...terribly askew in tone: masturbation jokes and homemade sex vids one minute, a teary group testimonial by Parkinson's patients the next.... is 'Love & Other Drugs' the date flick of the season? Maybe." (Read the full review...) 672 words, 11/24/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Gyllenhaal is winning and heartfelt... Hathaway deserves praise for going along with the movie's sexual frankness.... sitting through the silliness is a small price to pay to see Hathaway do some of the loveliest work of the year." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 11/24/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...makes you wonder why there haven't been more Hollywood romances of this quality since Zwick paired up Demi Moore and Rob Lowe... We shouldn't have to wait 24 years between screen love stories this sexy." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 11/24/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a sprawling, ambitious romantic comedy drama for grown-ups.... loads of laughs, sharp dialogue, scads of sex and sections of sweet, gorgeous sadness." (Read the full review...) 594 words, 11/24/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...might well have been called 'Sex, Jokes and the Occasional TV-Movie-Level Drama.' " (Read the full review...) 485 words, 11/24/10 Christopher Kelly, Dallas Morning News: WEAK (cg) "The sexual relationship here feels like a stunt, and a not especially sexy one at that.... Zwick applies a Hollywood polish to recognizably human dilemmas. 'Love & Other Drugs' finds him at his worst: synthetic and bombastic." (Read the full review...) 702 words, 11/24/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "If product proves especially difficult to swallow, take with a grain of salt and three or more alcoholic drinks, or wait until such time as active ingredients Hathaway and Gyllenhaal have been more effectively utilized elsewhere." (Read the full review...) 703 words, 11/24/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "True-blue love stories are rare in Hollywood. Good ones are almost nonexistent. So it's a pleasure to see how Jamie and Maggie navigate the volatile waters of attraction while seeking a relationship somewhere between hot sex and the c-word. Commitment." (Read the full review...) 526 words, 11/24/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...director Edward Zwick has combined the adorable, big-eyed duo of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway and given us -- well, a deeply cynical, romantic weepy satirical comedy.... muddled..." (Read the full review...) 275 words, 11/24/10 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "...an awfully large dose of sugar, though, to get the medicine down.... I'm sympathetic to the filmmakers' dilemma: They could have made a harder-hitting, more realistic film, but then no one would have gone to see it." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 11/24/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Gyllenhaal and Hathaway have a potent chemistry that's based in brutal truthfulness... they can't redeem scenes like a jaw-dropping meltdown in a hospital lobby or a traffic-stopping declaration of love.... successful in small doses..." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 11/24/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: FAIR (cg) "...a mess.... seems put together with Scotch tape -- take this element, now stick it to that element, attach this character, now put this on upside down..." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 11/24/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...doesn't quite avoid the pitfalls of its genre, but at least the movie has the decency to make you laugh on its way to a foregone conclusion. Also, did I mention the sex?" (Read the full review...) 560 words, 11/24/10
Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...middlebrow atrocity has been so carefully market-tested -- crudeness counteracts romance, slapstick leavens disease-of-the-week melodrama -- that it needn't even be seen, just administered directly into the bloody mainstream." (Read the full review...) 241 words, 11/24/10 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a welcome attempt at getting back to contemporary, frank storytelling, but its good intentions and substantial smarts make it all the more disappointing to see it miss the mark in the end." (Read the full review...) 755 words, 11/22/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...smarm and sentimentality..." (Read the full review...) 146 words, 11/25/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "Gyllenhaal and Hathaway have great chemistry together, and the best scenes are unexpectedly libertine in the way they depict a sexual bond leading to an emotional one.... But inevitably, the film takes a turn toward the conventional..." (Read the full review...) 382 words, 11/23/10 Bill Weber, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...an unwieldy mélange of genres and agendas, alternately gutsy and lamentable.... Gyllenhaal and Hathaway's erotic, playful energy could've carried a film, if only Zwick had known which one he was trying to make." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 11/21/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...tries so damn hard to win you over that the experience becomes exhausting.... the story doesn't have anywhere to go, and then it's like an entire season of a sitcom you didn't particularly want to see in the first place." (Read the full review...) 202 words, 11/25/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "...unpleasant people doing unpleasant things in the hopes that we will be somehow charmed by them.... an even bigger crock of shit than Hollywood romantic comedies tend to be." (Read the full review...) 989 words, 11/24/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: FAIR "...almost works, sustaining its blend of melodrama, low comedy and graceful wit for a good hour or so, but then succumbing to treacle, evasion and maudlin convention at the end." (Read the full review...) 1,106 words, 11/24/10 David Denby, New Yorker: EXCELLENT "...has many weak spots, but what it delivers at its core is as indelible as (and a lot more explicit than) the work of such legendary teams as Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 11/29/10 David Edelstein, NPR Fresh Air: MODERATE "...brash and manic and sexy, then grim and weepy and self-consciously inspirational.... one of the few romantic movies in the past few years with strong and insightful satirical undertones." (Listen to the full review...) 375 seconds, 11/23/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Finally, after years of suffering through Hollywood's predictable pap... a love story that is actually worth falling for, with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal excellent at steaming up the screen..." (Read the full review...) 832 words, 11/24/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: MODERATE "...doesn't feel like any other romantic comedy of recent years or, really, any romantic comedy I can think of.... rarely inspires a fed-up eye roll.... engenders more of a quizzical knit brow.... I'm not even sure whether I can recommend it or not." (Read the full review...) 1,109 words, 11/23/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...a preposterous mess... It honestly shouldn't work at all, yet somehow on the strength of good humor and sex appeal ends up being one of the most enjoyable mainstream films of the season." (Read the full review...) 981 words, 11/23/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...super-slick... snappy, saucy and, like any overzealous product-pusher, rather too eager to please.... clicks largely because its actors do..." (Read the full review...) 969 words, 10/26/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "The movie's got ADD like you wouldn't believe.... finally the film finds its story. And then things become shockingly conventional... But the energy of the cast and a dive into an unfamiliar world make the movie rather addictive." (Read the full review...) 941 words, 10/26/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Finally, after years of suffering through Hollywood's predictable pap... a love story that is actually worth falling for, with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal excellent at steaming up the screen..." (Read the full review...) 832 words, 11/24/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "Part a date movie, part schmaltzy melodrama (a weepie that would leave many viewers in tears), part critique of the corporate world, part satire of the medical establishment, but not satisfying on any of these levels..." (Read the full review...) 590 words, 11/23/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: FAIR "...almost works, sustaining its blend of melodrama, low comedy and graceful wit for a good hour or so, but then succumbing to treacle, evasion and maudlin convention at the end." (Read the full review...) 1,106 words, 11/24/10
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