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Mary Pols, Time: POOR "...slapdash... neither nicely written, nor nicely acted nor nicely made.... may be the ugliest movie of the year, from the garish lighting to the heavy make-up and bad costumes." (Read the full review...) 774 words, 12/09/11 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "If there is some kind of world record for schmaltz, this may have set it.... The cameos keep coming until the end, with even Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropping by. After all, this is as much an ad for New York as it is a movie." (Read the full review...) 607 words, 12/08/11 Bradley Jacobs, Us Weekly: WEAK (cg) "...shallow and insipid.... the only truly funny moments come during the end credits. The outtakes burst with the spontaneity and laughs the rest of the flick desperately lacks." (Read the full review...) 163 words, 12/08/11 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...a movie I often found myself laughing at in ridicule, and one that also gave me a lump in the throat.... it's the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening." (Read the full review...) 238 words, 12/09/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) "...bad beyond belief." (Read the full review...) 358 words, 12/09/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: POOR (cg) "...beyond predictable.... The stories are woven together in the clumsiest, most obvious fashion." (Read the full review...) 443 words, 12/08/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: POOR (cg) "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 the full review...) 557 words, 12/09/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: POOR (cg) "...if there was ever a film that cried out for a DVD screening party where you and your friends could try out your 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' chops, this is it." (Read the full review...) 668 words, 12/08/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "...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 the full review...) 682 words, 12/09/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "With all this talent at his disposal, Marshall could be making worthwhile entertainment, something genuinely fun as well as flashy." (Read the full review...) 486 words, 12/09/11 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: MODERATE "Director Garry Marshall knows a certain kind of comedy, but his technique has a way of pitting performers squarely against their own material.... a proudly superficial product..." (Read the full review...) 405 words, 12/09/11 Sara Stewart, New York Post: POOR (cg) "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 the full review...) 483 words, 12/09/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: POOR (cg) "A charmless, soulless cash-in from the people who sold you 'Valentine's Day.' " (Read the full review...) 362 words, 12/09/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: POOR (cg) "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 the full review...) 557 words, 12/09/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...it's difficult to distinguish which of the story lines most outrageously bids for our tears, though I nominate the one involving Robert De Niro as a former 'photojournalist in Vietnam' dying of cancer." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 12/07/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) "But wait, there's more! Cary Elwes, Alyssa Milano, Carla Gugino, James Belushi, Yeardley Smith, Penny Marshall, Jake T. Austin, Josh Duhamel, Matthew Broderick. And yes, Ryan Seacrest." (Read the full review...) 478 words, 12/09/11 Dave McGinn, Toronto Globe & Mail: POOR (cg) "...a terrible movie.... leaves you feeling like you've got no one to kiss at midnight." (Read the full review...) 631 words, 12/09/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "Either you enjoy watching all the famous pretty people run around falling in love and finding fulfillment in sitcommy circumstances or you sit there wondering why..." (Read the full review...) 208 words, 12/08/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: POOR (cg) "...forced jollity, oversize proportions and crass superficiality... Behind all the noisemakers and funny glasses, 'New Year's Eve' - and everyone in it - is dead behind the eyes." (Read the full review...) 537 words, 12/09/11 David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "...too effervescent to be truly disappointing, but it's certainly not intoxicating, either.... The party is over in this film long before the ball drops on this 'New Year's Eve.' " (Read the full review...) 446 words, 12/09/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: POOR (cg) "It would be an act of dignity for Marshall to get out of the movie game and enjoy his golden years at the shuffleboard league." (Read the full review...) 455 words, 12/09/11 Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: WEAK (cg) "...the cinematic equivalent of a greeting card: Both the sentiment and the laughs are plentiful, cheap and forgettable." (Read the full review...) 413 words, 12/09/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: POOR (cg) "The entire movie melts into goo." (Read the full review...) 598 words, 12/09/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: POOR (cg) "There's a cameo by the dynamic Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a couple of songs. And a few unintentional laughs, and many new career lows." (Read the full review...) 443 words, 12/09/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "...takes one of the calendar's most interesting holidays -- the most extreme and irrational, the one that acknowledges death, the one that reacts to fear -- and renders it innocuous and dull." (Read the full review...) 630 words, 12/09/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...lukewarm at best.... We don't care about any of these people and their problems, because they seem neither real nor interesting nor amusing..." (Read the full review...) 556 words, 12/09/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: POOR (cg) "...the same old schtick about searching for love on a deadline.... This malignant movie makes you hope that the ancient Mayans were right about the cleansing rain they forecast for next New Year's Eve." (Read the full review...) 429 words, 12/09/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: POOR (cg) "Nobody turns down a role in Garry Marshall's movies, apparently before reading the scripts." (Read the full review...) 673 words, 12/08/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: POOR (cg) "...makes you want to never drink champagne again. Written on the level of a bad episode of 'The Love Boat'..." (Read the full review...) 317 words, 12/09/11 Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "...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..." (Read the full review...) 512 words, 12/09/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...it's difficult to distinguish which of the story lines most outrageously bids for our tears, though I nominate the one involving Robert De Niro as a former 'photojournalist in Vietnam' dying of cancer." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 12/07/11 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "To Garry Marshall's credit, it must take some kind of skill to make a project that has so much going on, but at the same time nothing at all." (Read the full review...) 690 words, 12/08/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: POOR (cg) "...the eponymous feast of forced fun takes a beating, not to mention some Oscar winners who might add firing their agents to their list of resolutions.... Someone get this movie some Viagra." (Read the full review...) 157 words, 12/08/11 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: WEAK (cg) "...it'd be hard to imagine a film that took fewer chances, or more dogged pride in playing it safe." (Read the full review...) 391 words, 12/08/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: WEAK (cg) "...a collection of interconnected narrative threads that briskly accelerate from alleged comedy to syrupy sentimentality." (Read the full review...) 857 words, 12/08/11 Richard Larson, Slant: POOR (cg) "...predictably insufferable, self-congratulatory... designed to be ingested and then happily discharged without a second thought by gullible moviegoers who just don't know any better..." (Read the full review...) 488 words, 12/07/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "Either you enjoy watching all the famous pretty people run around falling in love and finding fulfillment in sitcommy circumstances or you sit there wondering why..." (Read the full review...) 208 words, 12/08/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "...a cheap, lazy excuse for a movie... The 'stories' range from unpleasant to implausible to downright illogical. There's isn't a single genuine human feeling to be had here." (Read the full review...) 970 words, 12/07/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "...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 the full review...) 682 words, 12/09/11 Linda Holmes, NPR: POOR "...performers stranded with absolutely no script support are forced to subsist on pure presence, which quickly becomes a blood sport in which only a few survive." (Read the full review...) 904 words, 12/08/11 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "Director Garry Marshall knows a certain kind of comedy, but his technique has a way of pitting performers squarely against their own material.... a proudly superficial product..." (Read the full review...) 405 words, 12/09/11
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: WEAK "...aggressively agreeable mini-stories spliced together and spit out with lawnmower-style eloquence... The overall effect is like being crushed under an avalanche of throw pillows." (Read the full review...) 556 words, 12/06/11 Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "...as appealing and effervescent as a flute of flat champagne. A remarkably maudlin affair that possesses scant evidence of Marshall's trademark brisk efficiency... feels stuck at least 30 years in the past." (Read the full review...) 451 words, 12/06/11 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "Director Garry Marshall knows a certain kind of comedy, but his technique has a way of pitting performers squarely against their own material.... a proudly superficial product..." (Read the full review...) 405 words, 12/09/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "Many stars, many subplots -- and many romantic-comedy clichés.... has a hard time offering up what the audience seeks: genuine pleasures in the romantic-comedy vein." (Read the full review...) 652 words, 12/07/11 Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "...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 the full review...) 682 words, 12/09/11
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