Critics Scoreboard
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Average Critic Score:
41
(32 sources)
41
(32 sources)
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75
Baltimore Sun
A bawdy, brainy sex comedy geared toward smart people with a sophomoric streak. Read Full Review » -
75
Miami Herald
An unapologetically stupid and implausible movie, but in the best possible way -- it's so sure of itself, it wins you over. Read Full Review » -
75
Portland Oregonian
The trouble is that the film forsakes one sort of energy for another, and the downshift is a drag. Read Full Review » -
75
Entertainment Weekly
Nothing more than a sort of dumb, sort of clever fish out of water comedy. Read Full Review » -
75
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75
Boston Globe
The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles. Read Full Review » -
70
Film.com
Let your children have their childhood while you have a rare, grown-up experience at the multi-plex for a change. Read Full Review » -
63
San Francisco Examiner
In another universe - though it is difficult to imagine which one - Garry Shandling might be sexy. Read Full Review » -
63
New York Daily News
The film's asset, in a walk, is Bening, whose comic timing puts Shandling to shame. Read Full Review » -
63
Chicago Tribune
Shandling and Nichols strain to reach a mainstream audience and wind up sounding like they, too, have been trained to tell us what we want to hear. Sorry, guys, but you don't score. Read Full Review » -
60
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60
TNT RoughCut
With Gary Shandling appearing in just about every scene, only fans of his trademark whiny, disinterested delivery and sexist un-political correctness have a hope of enjoying his new film. Read Full Review » -
50
Christian Science Monitor
Goodman's comic delivery gets maximum mileage from a few amusing situations, though. Read Full Review » -
50
USA Today
Nichols usually can lure A-list casts to even C-grade projects, and this is no exception. Read Full Review » -
50
San Francisco Chronicle
It's good for a few guffaws and chuckles, but in between the screen has a tendency to stretch at the corners and go flat. Read Full Review » -
50
Variety
Good for a few lascivious titters but quite lacking in the sort of comic bite and social satire one hopes for in the work of Mike Nichols. Read Full Review » -
50
Village Voice
There's a certain satisfaction in recognizing that Harold -- even when he inevitably starts to feel, just like a human -- remains something of an a--hole. Read Full Review » -
50
TV Guide
Unfortunately the whole thing is less than the sum of its parts, despite a frequently droll script and a great performance from Shandling. Read Full Review » -
48
Mr. Showbiz
This one somehow gets about 300 percent better in its last quarter-hour -- suddenly this is a movie worth watching -- and it's over. Read Full Review » -
40
Washington Post
Has its sinfully funny moments. Funny, that is, if you appreciate a certain cynical clamminess -- or Buck Henry seediness -- to your comedy. Read Full Review » -
40
Chicago Reader
The buildup to social criticism in what at first appears to be pointless and partly misogynist exploitation is subtly impressive. Read Full Review » -
30
Dallas Observer
Adequately breezy and sleazy -- a movie about the horniest man in the universe looking for a little one-night stand. Read Full Review » -
25
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25
Chicago Sun-Times
Here is the most uncomfortable movie of the new year, an exercise in feel-good smut. Read Full Review » -
20
Salon.com
Bening's prickliness is pure delight, but there's only so much she can do. It's a terrible fate for an actress to be upstaged by a humming p----. Read Full Review » -
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20
LA Weekly
Shandling comes off as a sleazebag -- all that's missing are the gold chains, tufted chest hair and English Leather. Read Full Review » -
20
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20
Austin Chronicle
Quite possibly, this could have been a hit back in 1975 or so, and almost certainly for Blake Edwards, but here and now it's just a puzzling aberration. Read Full Review » -
10
Newsweek
The combination of Shandling's button-down TV sensibility and Nichols's good taste produces a film whose tone is out of sync with the simple, ribald conceit and is only mildly amusing at best. Read Full Review » -
10
The New York Times
Wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite. Read Full Review »
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