Her Alibi 1989

Critics score:
15 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: A romantic melodrama of a boringness to make your average tooth extraction seem preferable. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: You know a movie is in trouble when you start looking at your watch. You know it's in bad trouble when you start shaking your watch because you think it might have stopped. Read more

Time Out: The plot is ludicrous, which in itself would be perfectly acceptable given sharper handling, but both script and direction devote so much time to romantic undercurrents that the central intrigue is further divested of credibility. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: He's a mystery writer, she's a mystery; and it's also a mystery how TV fodder like this manages to get the high-gloss, top-talent treatment at studios. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Screenwriter Charlie Peters is the predictable piggy whose arrested pubescence informs Her Alibi. When it comes to imagination, he has much in common with his hero. Read more