Confessions of a Shopaholic
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: February 6, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
16
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The problem with Confessions of a Shopaholic isn't conspicuous consumption. It's ostentatious idiocy. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
A thin, largely unfunny comedy that marries lazy filmmaking with bad timing. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
If the movie didn't pander so madly to the audience for "Sex and the City" and "Legally Blonde," it might have been a comedy touchstone instead of a cringeworthy footnote. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
The end product is surprisingly charmless -- a shrill "Devil Wears Prada"/"Bridget Jones"/"Sex and the City" knockoff that keeps threatening to fall apart at the seams. Read full review
30
SalonThomas Rogers
A loud, garish and very untimely romantic comedy. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The production renders totally irrelevant all hopes for a well-made movie. It's one of those ragged, pandemonious studio comedies that hammers at plot points in every contrived scene. Read full review
30
SlateDana Stevens
If you spin out the unintended analogy of Confessions of a Shopaholic to the current financial crisis, the film starts to mutate from a not-that-funny comedy into a tragic allegory. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Put this one back on the shelf, and walk away. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
I think that the perfect name for the chick in a chick flick is Rebecca Bloomwood. I know that if Charles Dickens had possessed the good sense to write chick flicks, he could not have done better than Rebecca Bloomwood. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Not only is it an unfunny movie shrilly told, it probably is the most ill-timed and appallingly insulting movie in recent memory. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
Confessions of a Shopaholic -- a "Devil Wears Prada" for Chico's customers. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleReyhan Harmanci
It's a shame that "Confessions" doesn't aim higher because there is a great film to be made about the consumer bait-and-switch that has led so many Americans to live beyond their means. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazinePerry Seibert
Lets down both its actress and the audience. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The comedy is slapstick, the colors Day Glo, the outcome inevitable. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It has been a long time since I came as close to walking out of a movie as I did with Confessions of a Shopaholic. Not only did I find this production to be irritating, unfunny, and lacking in entertainment value, but I found its underlying slavishness to a culture of consumption to be morally repugnant. Read full review
20
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Plays like both a supremely outmoded chick-lit adaptation and an outrageously obscene gesture as the economy continues to swallow up livelihoods, homes, and hope. Read full review
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