Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 20, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
12
Negative:
9
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88
Turns the kleig lights around to produce a wry and dead-on commentary on the film industry and the journalists who cover it.
63
Christopher Walken has the best moments in the whole thing, portraying the wacked-out auteur of the Gwen-and-Eddie vehicle. Sadly, he's only in America's Sweethearts a few hilarious minutes.
60
Wall Street JournalEd Epstein
Amusing enough, especially with its uniquely credible premise of a media fraud, to recommend.
40
It's dull, two-dimensional, and totally toothless.