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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie's reptilian setup doesn't do much to nurture a sense of mirth, and Auteuil is too likable an actor to make an effective SOB. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: My Best Friend is terrifically acted, reassuringly formulaic, and moderately amusing. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Watching it is like spending 90 minutes with a good friend: You'll revel in the pleasure of its company, and remember your time together with a smile. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Patrice Leconte has taken a story about male friendship, in all its posturing and potential vulnerability, and turned it into a light, smart, crowd-pleasing comedy. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Auteuil and Boon's appealing performances keep the film engaging throughout, but it's easy to pine for a dark, challenging film with this premise, pitched more toward a harrowing emotional reckoning than this film's ambiguous but inevitable happy ending. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Leconte's writing is tight and nimble, and while the tests of the duo's friendship are facile, under the circumstances, they make sense. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Too serious to be an out-and-out comedy, too funny not to be one, My Best Friend is a lot easier to enjoy than to classify. Read more
Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: The tone of the movie...saves it from its preposterous plot. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: As an alleged witty comedy of humanistic charm, it sags in both, thanks to unfunny predicaments and a phony plot. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: French filmmakers have often been at odds with the Hollywood juggernaut. With My Best Friend, Leconte seems to be throwing up his hands. If you can't beat them, join them. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: [Director] Leconte and his perfectly suited stars have given us one of those light comedies that carry a world of lovely weight. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Expect to see this French film Americanized in the near future, but that's no reason to pass on the original. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A premise as love-it-or-leave-it as My Best Friend's requires a sure hand to steer it safely away from the excesses of wackiness or sentiment. Delightfully, the expert Patrice Leconte produces an unlikely comedy charmer. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: You'll laugh, but you may also be counting your friends on your fingers when you leave. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Light, airy and sweet, Patrice Leconte's latest comedy swings his favorite premise -- fruitful encounters between opposites -- away from romance and into the wistful hunger for friendship in a careerist world. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: The difficulties that men of a certain age have in forging substantive alliances is a subject rarely tackled by the movies in any serious way, so one is inclined to forgive Leconte the film's sitcommy tendencies. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's better when it's threatening, but Leconte knows his audience. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Missing a little something -- an interest in reaching out, a willingness to be silly, a fond and friendly talent for connecting. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The film has elements of suspense that keep it interesting. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Formulaic but entertaining. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: ...ripples with ironies as it approaches the beloved genre of the buddy movie from an initial premise of friendlessness. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A sweetly surprising treatise on friendship. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: ... a mild-mannered farce ... Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It was directed by Patrice Leconte, who makes intelligent films combining sympathy for his characters with a quick wit, a dark undertow and a love of human peculiarity. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Some of the best French films of the past 20 years have been made by Patrice Leconte. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: An unconvincing replica of the dizzy situation comedies that Hollywood poured out in double and triple bills in the thirties and forties (and went on making in the guise of TV sitcoms well into the nineties). Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Resolutely predictable from the starting gate. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Patrice Leconte is in a light but thoughtful mood in My Best Friend, a buddy movie that actually ponders the nature of what it is to be a buddy. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog, but if you want a friend in Paris, get a checkbook. That's the gist of Patrice Leconte's cynical-to-sentimental arc of a story upon which the clever Frenchman's new film, My Best Friend, is built. Read more