Going Shopping
Rainbow Releasing | Release Date: September 30, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
6
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Comes as close as any film to explaining what the deal is with women and shopping. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Going Shopping is sharp and funny about all the things that shopping can mean to the women who live to do it, and even to those who don't. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
Going Shopping can make a wonderful outing for girlfriends. It's fun. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
There's just enough neurotic or sharp badinage and Rodeo Drive realism to make it all go down easy. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
As in many of his films, Jaglom establishes a striking intimate rapport with his female subjects, and as the funny and bitter revelations pour forth, an activity that many men may view as something done strictly out of necessity takes on unforeseen narcotic, romantic and therapeutic dimensions. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
It completes an informal trilogy that treats women's anxieties over food, motherhood and now clothes with humor and affection. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Though intermittently shrill, Shopping does have enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping. Read full review
60
Film ThreatPhil Hall
Jaglom has the good sense to cast the legendary Lee Grant in an extraordinary role. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Going Shopping, like Mr. Jaglom's other movies, has enough smart, knowing touches and enough easy spontaneity among its well-chosen actors to make you wish it added up to more than what it turns out to be: a flighty, motor-mouthed cinematic divertissement. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Zeroes in on retail mania with a flimsy wire hanger of a premise. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
The message is muddled. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Every scene ends with a gag line, punched up by Jaglom's harried intercutting, and threaded through the story are close-ups of women discussing their obsession with new clothes, an exercise that yields its wisdom in the first 20 minutes and then keeps repeating it. Read full review
40
VarietyLael Loewenstein
Item may draw curious women looking to cool their heels, say, while out shopping, but straight men can be expected to stay away in droves and Jaglom regulars will probably wait for the DVD. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
More cheerful misogyny from writer-director Henry Jaglom. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAkiva Gottlieb
Henry Jaglom's latest study of contemporary female obsessions among a noxious clan of West L.A. bourgeoisie is of more pathological than cinematic interest. Read full review
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