Down with Love
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: May 9, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
17
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Sexy, sophisticated comedy that only occasionally falls short of its admirable ambition: that is, to be a fun, fizzy, razzle-dazzle thing. Straight to the moon, indeed. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
A postfeminist valentine to the Paleolithic days of Woman Power when dinosaurs walked Manhattan in heels with matching handbags. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
it's so much fun because, like Haynes' film, it's made by people with a genuine love for the entertainment they're bringing back to life. You'd have to be a real prude not to go for it. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
May register most immediately as a snappy whirl of visual gags, double entendres, overheated romance, and comically oversized living quarters, but beneath the exuberance of this fond counterfeit is a heartbeat as powerful as that of any film anchored in the present. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
No better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but that is a compliment, I think. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Doesn't so much crackle as pop. It has enough double entendres to fill a D-cup, but it has a premise that would have burned a hole in the screen in 1962, when its story is set. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Could have used more of the shimmering elegance of the Day-Hudson comedies. Those movies had a true sparkle. This one's a likable piece of costume jewelry. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Light, funny, and clever. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
This is all far beyond silly, of course - the most inconsequential sort of winking, meta-movie in-joke. Read full review
70
Film ThreatBrad Slager
Doesn’t so much immerse itself in the movies from that period as it submerges, and does so with pure adulation. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Works hard to earn it and is, for the most part, intelligent and amusing, even if it never achieves the full-tilt zany desperation of Delbert Mann's "Lover Come Back," the best of the real Hudson-Day movies. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray Conlogue
A bit like having a detached retina. One keeps blinking and trying to get it into focus, but it never quite does. What, one wonders, is this movie doing here? Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Dragging on too long is a more serious flaw in a romantic comedy than it might be in a complex drama. We don't ask much of a movie like this, but we do require it to be snappy, clever and quick. Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Lehmann
The problem lies with the paucity of sizzle between the romantic leads, Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. They just don't look like they're having any fun together, particularly the bony Zellweger, who has trouble filling out the wow-worthy ensembles and perpetually looks like she's sucking on a lemon. Read full review
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