All About Steve
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: September 4, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
1
Negative:
24
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Staff (Not credited)
Bullock, easing into her mid-40s with box-office mojo intact, remains the star attraction as the annoyingly endearing Mary. You simply can't imagine another actor of her stature pulling it off. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Refreshingly quirky comedy. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
There are good movies to be made about romantic obsession, but the premise doesn't work if the crazy stalker isn't juxtaposed with a sympathetic victim. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Manages to be both toothless and tasteless in its satire of TV news sensationalism. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
There’s nothing wrong with All About Steve that a rewrite couldn’t fix, as long as the rewrite involved a different writer, a different character and a different story. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The screenplay by Kim Barker requires Bullock to behave in an essentially disturbing way that began to wear on me. It begins as merely peculiar, moves on to miscalculation and becomes seriously annoying. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Struggles mightily to find its loony essence. But Bullock's apple-cheeked larkishness is all flailing limbs and bug-eyed reaction shots - there's no there there. Cooper's character is woefully underwritten, Church's is yet another vain anchorman-wannabe cartoon. Read full review
30
NPRElla Taylor
If it's about anything at all, the lame new comedy All About Steve is mostly about Mary, a logorrheic crossword compiler with too much arcane information in her head -- and the social skills of an excitable 6-year-old boy. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
A viewer is challenged to guess what the filmmakers thought they were doing. A 1930s screwball comedy with a modern sensibility? A misguided valentine to those who march to the beat of a different drummer? Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A creepy, humiliating ''comedy,'' playing to Bullock's worst instincts for demonstrating the lovability of women who don’t fit in. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
There's no footing in reality. Nothing about it feels authentic: not the blathering Mary, not the lifeless secondary characters, not the bromide-happy dialogue or the plot that twists less often than it spasms. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Bullock does her damndest to be nerdy and instead becomes excruciatingly artificial - a malfunctioning verbal fun machine. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
A dippy clunker like All About Steve has no purpose other than as a challenge: If you laden a usually charming A-lister with a thoroughly off-putting, unhinged character, can she claw her way to likability? The short answer is no. The long answer is, what in the world was Bullock, who also produced the movie, thinking? Read full review
20
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Much of what's offensive and insufferable about All About Steve can be laid at the feet of screenwriter Kim Barker, best known for inflicting "License to Wed" on the world. Why do these people still earn obscene amounts of money churning out dreck? And why do stars like Bullock keep paying them? Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Since Bullock coproduced this masochistic venture, it seems she buys into the idea that fluffer-nut ditziness is what she does best. Except it isn't. Read full review
20
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The concept of an intelligent woman is apparently so exotic to Ms. Bullock and her director, Phil Traill, that they frantically kook the character up, as if female smarts were a kind of disability. This being a contemporary big-studio release, I suppose it is. Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Just when you think your jaw can't drop any lower in appalled amazement, comes a romantic comedy so lunkheaded and ill-conceived that it makes your average, idiotic Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey outing look like the reincarnation of Hepburn and Grant. Read full review
20
Time OutHank Sartin
A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Indisputably awful comedy. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
A head-banging excuse for a comedy. Read full review
10
VarietyBrian Lowry
Sitting through the picture is an endurance test. Read full review
0
New York PostKyle Smith
Grotesquely unfunny comedy. Read full review
0
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Insulting, witless comedy. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
Packaged as a romantic comedy but devoid of comedy or romance, this baffling train wreck stars Sandra Bullock as a tediously kooky constructor of crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
How do you make a movie about a protagonist so profoundly irritating that even her loved ones barely tolerate her? And how do you avoid annoying audiences to the point of distraction in the process? Read full review
0
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Easily the worst movie of the week, month, year, and Bullock’s entire career. It is to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai: a plague best contemplated from many miles away. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Unwatchable, unbearably unfunny farce. Read full review
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