Heartbreaker
IFC Films | Release Date: September 10, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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80
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
American romantic comedies have become so dismal over the past 20 years that it wouldn't be hard for even the Romanian film industry to show us up. I'm still waiting for the great Romanian romantic comedy (and hey, it could be out there), but for now, France saves the day with Heartbreaker. Read full review
80
EmpireLiz Beardsworth
A romantic-comedy that packs charm, humour and warmth in spades. Read full review
80
Boxoffice MagazineWade Major
A whipsmart twist on a particular kind of romantic comedy. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Slick entertainment is rarely as, yes, slickly entertaining as it is in Heartbreaker, a French romantic farce that is commercial cinema at its most successful. Read full review
80
VarietyJordan Mintzer
Combining the glamour of "To Catch a Thief" with the ruckus of a Ben Stiller movie, TV vet Pascal Chaumeil's French Riviera-set intrigue stars Romain Duris. Read full review
75
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreDec 8, 2010
Sweet and sunny (Lots of English language pop tunes) and laugh-out-loud silly and well worth seeing before Hollywood remakes it with somebody like Matthew McConaughey in the title role. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Heartbreaker is like a caper comedy meets "The Bodyguard" - it's winsome and accomplished fluff. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Splashed with Monte Carlo glamour, physical comedy and nimble scams, the movie rolls along enjoyably to its goofy but endearing big scene: an homage to "Dirty Dancing." Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Heartbreaker, which begins as a Hollywood-style caper and turns into a romantic comedy, is no more than a luxurious trifle. But it is also enjoyable for the vast difference in temperament between its two stars. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
It's fun to watch the habitually intense Duris relax somewhat in a light comedy role, and director Pascal Chaumeil gets good mileage out of the team's ridiculously elaborate con games. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
The premise is pure formula. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Heartbreaker isn't disappointing enough that it will cause pangs of deep regret for anyone who pays to see it in a movie theater, but it will go down more easily as a home viewing option. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Paradis - Johnny Depp's real-life love - is as blank as she is beautiful. But Duris is so gung-ho that he turns each ridiculous premise into a masterpiece of comic mayhem. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Cary Grant, to take the premier example, was a great screwball comic who was, at the same time, intensely romantic. With Grant, funniness and sexiness were twinned. This is an exceedingly difficult combo to bring off, and Duris, though it would be unfair to compare him with Grant, doesn't come close. Read full review
55
NPRJeannette Catsoulis
Frothy, frantic and inescapably unromantic - the two leads have less chemistry than an American high-school curriculum - Heartbreaker marks the uneven feature debut of television director Pascal Chaumeil. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Heartbreaker relies far too heavily on the charm and attractiveness of romantic leads whose chemistry is lukewarm at best to sell a groaning collection of rom-com clichés. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
There's trouble in Paradis-and in a script that prizes frenzy over any actual feeling. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
This is a movie whose cynicism in the name of idealism might have appealed to Billy Wilder. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Yes, Heartbreaker is diverting, intermittently charming and occasionally funny, but it is also a jumble of jammed-together notions. Unevenly paced, it goes on too many tangents to cohere as a persuasive comic fable about love and money. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Total fluff, though its totality is reasonably agreeable, and Pascal Chaumeil's comedy cum scenery-mainly Monte Carlo-gives the mercurial Romain Duris a chance to show his chops as an homme fatal. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
Here's a film that definitely wants to play Hollywood dress-up. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It turns out to be just as bad as any routine French romantic comedy - illogical, inconsistent and sloppily written, a charmless, tasteless, witless waste of time. Read full review
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