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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: It has solid performances, genuine wit and a few surprises that more than make up for occasional lapses in plot and taste. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: An unfortunate confluence of herky-jerky script, pointless scenes, weak slapstick and too many forays into the Land of the Moronic ... prevents the film from transcending its genre. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A dud, mostly serving to remind us of the other, better movies that it wants to be when it grows up. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: An eccentric, boldly black romantic comedy. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: An awkward and aggressively unfunny film. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [O]ne of the worst romantic comedies of this or probably any other year. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Filled with poor excuses for human beings, who are supposed to be funny in their utter disregard for their fellow man. But they mostly come off as sadistic and cruel, which isn't a great recipe for knee-slapping comedy. Read more
Janice Page, Boston Globe: It's written more cleverly than you might expect, with occasionally funny one-liners ... and the good sense not to take itself too seriously most of the time. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: It's unfortunate that Little Black Book doesn't add up to more, because the movie's darker, more comic instincts might have flown with a stronger premise and better characters. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Starts as the playful romantic comedy, then veers into an ensemble piece about ruthless careerism before settling for melodramatic self-obsession. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Raises the question: When does a movie go from being an homage to being a parasite? Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: It practically throws out its back with wackiness, but underneath, it nurses a misbegotten morality play. Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: The movie's tone veers wildly from scene to scene before taking an unexpected turn in the final scenes. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Part of the movie's problem is that it can't decide whether to be a romantic comedy or a satire of television. Unlike the most obvious example, 1987's Broadcast News, this movie's not smart enough to be both. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Saddled with a vapid heroine, British director Nick Hurran sidesteps romance in favor of the zany, fast-talking world of daytime talk TV, culminating in an unconvincing, remarkably unpleasant finale. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: If you must feel superior to the bad behavior of others, stick to Jerry Springer. As Carly has sung, nobody does it better. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: All Little Black Book offers is a pileup of sitcom scenarios overlaid with annoyingly glib narration, a la Sex and the City. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A screechy chick-flick relationship comedy with a lot of things working for and against it -- mostly against it. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Offering few laughs and a climactic scene of breathtaking cruelty, this sour comedy draws you against your will into its malignant force field. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: One of those annoyingly coy romantic comedies in which people try to improve their relationships by deceiving and investigating each other. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The problem is that director Nick Hurran and writers Melissa Carter and Elisa Bell see this as more of a sit-com. And, in a vain attempt to get laughs, they de-humanize their characters. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: We assume this is going to be a routine career-girl comedy, and we're surprised when it moves deeper into its subject until finally it's a satirical comedy about television that invades some of the same territory as Network or Broadcast News Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Built on a premise that is as predictable as it is thin. Read more
Daphne Gordon, Toronto Star: If it's hard to like the message and the characters in this movie, it's even harder to like the acting, though the casting is strong. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: It's not just that this schizophrenic relationship pic-cum-showbiz satire lacks so much as a single fresh idea; it lacks an entertaining way of presenting its stale ideas, too. Read more
Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice: It's no fun to side with Murphy's mean-spirited paranoiac, so we're soon rooting for the gynecologist to uncover a venereal disease, or for the chef to whip up some salmonella, or even for that Palm cradle to fall into the bathtub. Read more
Sara Gebhardt, Washington Post: It's not well scripted enough or well acted enough to do much of anything, save make anyone watching really hate Brittany Murphy for being so annoying and so incredibly unlikely as a cute twenty-something Diane Sawyer wannabe. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: If you think it's worth it to sit there for 97 minutes for three or possibly four laughs, then you are beyond help. Read more