Heartbreaker
IFC Films | Release Date: September 10, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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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
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