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Oliver Jones, People: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...it's McAdams' movie, and she carries that responsibility with a grace and joyousness that keeps things bouncy even when the jokes fall flat." (Read the full review...) 169 words, 11/11/10 Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a cut above most other recent light fare, but not a prime cut." (Read the full review...) 1,152 words, 11/12/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "...glossy, moves quickly enough and has a few enjoyable personalities. Maybe the intermittent laugh. But afterward you realize it tried to cram a whole lot of vapid stuff into one compact time frame... and you're no better for having watched." (Read the full review...) 754 words, 11/09/10 Bradley Jacobs, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "The excellent McAdams -- in a leading role she has deserved for years -- charms with her caffeinated energy.... But the script, penned by the writer who adapted 'The Devil Wears Prada' for the screen, lacks that hit's bitchy bite." (Read the full review...) 178 words, 11/11/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...as mediocre as the picture often is, it features the sort of tasty, ham-on-cheese movie-star overacting that's undeniable lowbrow fun." (Read the full review...) 725 words, 11/12/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a tart, terrific comedy... Ford and Keaton are delicious together.... [but] loses momentum on a dutiful romance between Becky Fuller (a lively Rachel McAdams), the workaholic producer of 'Daybreak,' and Adam Bennett (Patrick Wilson), a cute news guy." (Read the full review...) 243 words, 11/12/10 Scott Bowles, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "...can't decide whether to skewer the morning news or wallow in its pap.... spreads its plot awfully thin and wastes the best performance in years by Harrison Ford." (Read the full review...) 464 words, 11/10/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a funny entertainment to begin with, and then Rachel McAdams transforms it. And Harrison Ford transforms himself.... This is the kind I like best. It grows from human nature and is about how people do their jobs and live their lives." (Read the full review...) 796 words, 11/09/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "...endearing enough to make viewers forgive the half-hearted, clichéd ventures into her sit-com inspired life.... succeeds when it captures the antics, rivalries, and petty acts of rebellion unseen by the cameras." (Read the full review...) 753 words, 11/10/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "...passably amusing... drills every emotional beat into your head... so insistently, at times desperately, upbeat that it feels strung out on a cocktail of antidepressants and bad test-audience results." (Read the full review...) 859 words, 11/10/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...this often-witty baby-of-'Broadcast News' tries hard to be liked, like the TV fluff it's built around. The news is that, often, it succeeds." (Read the full review...) 392 words, 11/10/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn't always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam." (Read the full review...) 774 words, 11/10/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...does get in some good shots at the wacky world of morning television (admittedly an easy target). It includes more than a few clever lines, and boasts a stellar cast, including the underutilized Diane Keaton." (Read the full review...) 404 words, 11/10/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "If the romantic comedy clicks with audiences, the McAdams factor surely will be the reason why. She plays a variant on 'Mary Tyler Moore's' Mary Richards... pays off with the rom-com equivalent of a glass half-full." (Read the full review...) 545 words, 11/10/10 John Anderson, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "McAdam's energy (and, yes, her looks) keep Michell's movie rolling, through inexplicable behavior, bad wardrobe, the waste of Diane Keaton as Mike's on-air antagonist, and the incessant music that serves as sloppily applied mortar between lumpy narrative stones." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 11/10/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a funny entertainment to begin with, and then Rachel McAdams transforms it. And Harrison Ford transforms himself.... This is the kind I like best. It grows from human nature and is about how people do their jobs and live their lives." (Read the full review...) 796 words, 11/09/10 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "McAdams gives a real star turn here... [however,] stock tricks of the genre do little to make up for the fact that 'Glory's' central non-professional romance is cursory and unconvincing.... there's no sexual charge..." (Read the full review...) 727 words, 11/10/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "Are director Mitchell and screenwriter McKenna trying to say anything meaningful about television and the media? If so, they've failed. Are they content to just amuse viewers with sitcom-level yuks? If so, they succeed only moderately." (Read the full review...) 705 words, 11/10/10 Kate Taylor, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...the winsome McAdams proves a worthy heir of the screwball-comedy queens. Plus the movie does show some welcome wit as it satirizes the idiocies of morning TV - until it starts repeating itself in the second half." (Read the full review...) 734 words, 11/10/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: GOOD (cg) "...se agradece porque envuelve un guión convencional y previsible con actores entrañables, localizaciones lujosas y una puesta en escena elegante y efectiva." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 11/10/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's pleasant enough fluff - particularly during a lively midsection when McAdams starts putting her talent in increasingly absurd situations to boost ratings - but nothing more." (Read the full review...) 255 words, 11/11/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...despite an appealing premise and terrific stars, veers so wildly in tone that it never settles into a story worth believing, let alone remembering." (Read the full review...) 846 words, 11/10/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Rachel McAdams streaks across 'Morning Glory,' a diverting comedy about the three-ring circus of morning programs, like dimples shot from a cannon. She's sharp, sexy and funny. Too bad the script does not permit her to be all three at the same time." (Read the full review...) 431 words, 11/10/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...as fresh as new laundry, or Rachel McAdams, but there's something wrong with it, too, and what's wrong is in the performances.... undercut by one-note, heavy-handed comic acting." (Read the full review...) 491 words, 11/10/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...a barely serviceable romantic comedy about a perky, failing morning news show producer and the grizzled mismatched anchors she can never quite keep happy, on or off the air.... Even the fluff feels recycled here." (Read the full review...) 509 words, 11/10/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's perky, it's peppy, it tootles along with a grinning gaiety not many movies can manage.... It's formula entertainment, admittedly, but there's real pleasure in seeing the equation worked out so cleverly." (Read the full review...) 535 words, 11/10/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: WEAK (cg) "...a slight movie... has a talented cast and a subject ripe for examination, parody, satire, something. You just won't find much of that here." (Read the full review...) 569 words, 11/10/10 Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has its charms, including a gift of gab that keeps you on your toes for the first third of the movie and a willingness to poke shallow reportage in the eye.... But unless you've never seen 'Broadcast News,' or 'Prada,' the whole thing feels like a copy of a copy." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 11/10/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a work of extreme fluff, a lightweight bauble about the morning-show wars that floats on the updrafts of character comedy until it charmingly self-destructs in the final act.... a pleasant and occasionally hilarious ride, even if there's a bait-and-switch at its core." (Read the full review...) 518 words, 11/10/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a formula, but it's a successful one: excellent cast meets clever script meets talented director.... especially a triumph for McAdams." (Read the full review...) 374 words, 11/10/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...while it's certainly lively, it just keeps reminding you of other, better movies." (Read the full review...) 485 words, 11/10/10 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...painless enough, leavening superficiality with substance, allowing you to watch and still do the laundry without missing anything vital." (Read the full review...) 231 words, 11/10/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...mainstream moviemaking at its most proficient, with a zippy script, comfort-food casting and a breakout performance by a deserving star." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 11/10/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (cg) "...depicts the supposedly cutthroat world of morning television with the sharpness of a butter knife. Only a spunky cast prevents the film from being as tedious as a test pattern." (Read the full review...) 545 words, 11/11/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...ultimately something of a morning news show version of a morning news show -- perky, jerky, chit-chatty and polished. And eminently, pointedly, forgettable." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 11/10/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "Someone apparently forgot to tell Harrison Ford he was starring in a comedy... Ford doesn't give the character any humor or shading of humanity.... even [Rachel McAdams] isn't enough to save this mild, bland picture for sinking into a swamp of blahs." (Read the full review...) 476 words, 11/10/10
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "McAdams gives a real star turn here... [however,] stock tricks of the genre do little to make up for the fact that 'Glory's' central non-professional romance is cursory and unconvincing.... there's no sexual charge..." (Read the full review...) 727 words, 11/10/10 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: EXCELLENT (cg) "...for the most part 'Morning Glory' is zippy and confident, the actors landing every one of screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna's many funny lines and director Roger Michell pushing the comedy forward without ever straining for laughs." (Read the full review...) 916 words, 11/09/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "Some of this is funny in a sub-'Broadcast News' kind of way, but director Roger Michell... disdains his audience, and panders to the lowest common denominator." (Read the full review...) 149 words, 11/11/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "The heart of the movie is really McAdams' wonderfully contentious relationship with Ford, and more broadly, 'Daybreak's' staff, who work their tails off to improve a show that looks more like public access than like 'Good Morning, America.' " (Read the full review...) 388 words, 11/12/10 Bill Weber, Slant: POOR (cg) "...substitutes witless insults for the adult badinage of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'Broadcast News'... Relentlessly unpleasant... lacking a single hearty laugh... trashes its cast and begs for a click of the remote." (Read the full review...) 304 words, 11/09/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's pleasant enough fluff - particularly during a lively midsection when McAdams starts putting her talent in increasingly absurd situations to boost ratings - but nothing more." (Read the full review...) 255 words, 11/11/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...[a] silly comedy... directed by Roger Michell from a scatterbrained script... This production is a mess for many reasons, most of them having to do with its frantic efforts to be funny." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 11/12/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "...passably amusing... drills every emotional beat into your head... so insistently, at times desperately, upbeat that it feels strung out on a cocktail of antidepressants and bad test-audience results." (Read the full review...) 859 words, 11/10/10 David Denby, New Yorker: POOR "...has a depressed, rancid air.... What we thought was satire of TV's inanity turns into an unironic celebration of greater inanity.... a recession-era bummer." (Read the full review...) 719 words, 11/15/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn't always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam." (Read the full review...) 774 words, 11/10/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...a brash, lightweight backstage comedy that looks lovely, doesn't insult its audience and uses its stars, both young and old, to terrific effect.... almost entirely fun..." (Read the full review...) 1,019 words, 11/09/10
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a genially midrange if overlong romantic comedy... has precious little edge, though it does manage a decent enough laughs-to-duds ratio... McAdams exhibits a flustery physicality that is delightful to watch." (Read the full review...) 699 words, 11/03/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: WEAK "...never sneaks away from a comfy sitcom mode.... 'Notting Hill' director Roger Michell manages a few laughs and a chuckle here and there... McAdams, Ford and Keaton are all good as far as it goes, but these are mostly one-note performances." (Read the full review...) 653 words, 11/01/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn't always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam." (Read the full review...) 774 words, 11/10/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...mildly charming... an innocuous, overly familiar romantic comedy set in the workplace.... tries too hard top be smart and sexy in its depiction of one working girl's road to success and first taste of victory." (Read the full review...) 720 words, 11/09/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "...passably amusing... drills every emotional beat into your head... so insistently, at times desperately, upbeat that it feels strung out on a cocktail of antidepressants and bad test-audience results." (Read the full review...) 859 words, 11/10/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...[a] silly comedy... directed by Roger Michell from a scatterbrained script... This production is a mess for many reasons, most of them having to do with its frantic efforts to be funny." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 11/12/10
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