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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: A Billy Crystal shtick-fest masquerading as romantic-comedy, though it's hardly ever romantic and only occasionally funny. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It has the misfortune of being both too inside for outsiders and too unlikely for those in the know. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: All these good actors and all Crystal's sass and witty candor can't bring back the heyday of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. Or even, most of the time, their off-days. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a perfectly fine setup for romantic-comedy capering, with enough good one-liners to satisfy. But Roth seems a bit at sea with his powerhouse cast. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: You go to America's Sweethearts anticipating a prime flossy, glossy entertainment. You come away better by a few laughs but with expectations sadly deflated. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Opens with terrific promise, reaches a few dead ends but usually redeems itself. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Like a bottle of lukewarm Champagne -- an expensive one, judging by the label -- America's Sweethearts opens with a promising burst of effervescence and quickly goes flat. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: The movie is a polished muddle, fitfully amusing but with no spine. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Not so much a terrible movie as a tryingly bland one, the star-stuffed America's Sweethearts actually manages to make Entertainment Tonight seem dangerous by comparison. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: For the farce it so desperately wants to be, the film often feels slack and too reliant on so-so punch lines for laughs. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Pleasant old-school comedy with a few modern, edgy twists. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Enormously engaging in its opening segments, it's unable to sustain that good feeling over the long haul. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: [T]he jokes mostly fell flat. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Given its subject matter, it's too genial to cut deep. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A miasma of vanity envelops America's Sweethearts where wit ought to reign. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The kind of flick that gives fluff a good name. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A clunky ribbing of the movie industry. Read more
Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly: The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Both harmlessly cynical and deeply fatuous. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A boring, brain-dead flop. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Too cynically slick and emotionally shallow. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: One of the most caustic and hilarious looks behind the scenes of movie-making since Bowfinger. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: America's Sweethearts recycles Singin' in the Rain but lacks the sassy genius of that 1952 musical. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The movie has no sparkle, no charm, nothing to sweep us off our feet. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Doesn't contain a single genuine emotion. It's just as bogus and hollow as the movie business it portrays. Read more
Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today: Ex-Disney exec and production company honcho Joe Roth, who hasn't directed in 11 years, is somewhat out of practice and out of touch. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: America's Sweethearts begins as a smartly promising, gently farcical comedy of manners and ends as sourly and haphazardly as the lives it is poking fun at. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A lackluster screwball comedy and dubious Julia Roberts vehicle. Read more