He's Just Not That Into You
New Line Cinema | Release Date: February 6, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
20
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
PremiereOlivia Putnal and Krista Soriano
Ginnifer Goodwin gives a standout performance--and that’s saying a lot considering the large cast--as the insecure, neurotic female looking for love. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Never soars, but it never flags. It remains brisk, engaging and pleasant throughout, and face it: If a movie this well made had Spanish or French subtitles, we'd all be talking about it as a searing examination of sexual politics. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
This amiable romantic comedy benefits from its stellar ensemble. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
While "Love, Actually" succeeded in providing well-developed characters in (mostly) interesting situations, He's Just Not That Into You is often flat with subplots that feel rushed and/or contrived. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Good comfort food for most of its running time, thanks to a cast of attractive, unchallenging pros and Ken Kwapis's smooth direction. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The result is Woody Allen lite, with some deft observations about how the social media designed to bring singles together are actually coming between them. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The movie has a few too many story threads, but it also has some very funny lines and offers sharp-eyed commentary on the state of relationships in the era of instant messages and MySpace. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
With an all-star cast maintaining an amiable tone throughout, the result is a movie in which everyone should see themselves for at least a few minutes (and wish they were that young, that beautiful and that well-off). Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
The result is a bit like a weightless swirl of cotton candy with a mere second of sweetness before it dissolves on your tongue. But then there's nothing wrong with cotton candy, and besides, the filmmakers never promised more. I guess they're just not into that. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
He's Just Not That Into You turns romantic sanity into something so sanitized that it starts to make delusion look good. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Easily the least passionate romantic comedy I've seen in years. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
I suppose it's a good thing that this movie has so many crisscrossing subplots. If one gaggle of whiners gets on your nerves, rest assured the scenery will soon change and another will take center stage. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
All of this results in way too much relationship chatter and not nearly enough comedy, romance or even dysfunctional relationships. We want to laugh -- but at what? Read full review
50
VarietyJohn Anderson
No one has anything to distract them from the minutiae of their love lives, which they proceed to incinerate through overanalysis. It's a moral fable, maybe, if you make half a million a year. Read full review
50
Village VoiceElla Taylor
If all you ask for is a few gay jokes, a perky score, pretty shots of Baltimore, and some clever but callow observations of sexual mores in the city, He's Just Not That Into You is an amiable enough night out. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is a very far from perfect movie, and it ends on an unsatisfactory note. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The fact that you won't remember any of these names for more than a minute should indicate exactly how much depth each character displays. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The big names don't do needy as well as "Big Love's" Ginnifer Goodwin. Read full review
50
Washington PostStaff (Not credited)
After more than two hours, what we're left with feels like a Robert Altman movie on Botox. It has some real substance and heft, but it also might be a bit too glossy. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazinePerry Seibert
There's tons of professionalism in He's Just Not That Into You, but it lacks passion -- they should have called it "Like, Actually." Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Pretty routine, pretty forgettable. Don't know how else to say this, so best to be frank: I'm just not that into He's Just Not That Into You. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Like the recent "Sex and the City" movie, this spinoff not so subtly tries to have its cake and eat it by ALSO suggesting that a woman is nothing without a man. Read full review
50
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
The "star-studded" cast seems to have been cast according to their Premiere power ranking and/or desperation for exposure. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
I think the movie intends to empower all of its female characters, but it ends up chaining them to stale, timeworn ideas. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Yes, that's an impressive collection of actors. And yes, it's deflating to watch them wandering in and out of half-written scenes with no discernable direction. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The possibilities of the dating game are endless and the potential for pain is great, yet the permutations of the movie's plot are predictable and repetitive. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Whenever faced with another puerile movie ostensibly about women, I play a little game called What Would Thelma and Louise Do? Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
There's some funny stuff here that doesn't involve degrading its female protagonists, and the cast, by and large, is appealing. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Here's a true S&M date movie. Only sadistic men and masochistic women could love it. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneTasha Robinson
Some of the players comport themselves better than others--Barrymore is sweetly wistful in her minor role, while Johansson, as a confident go-getter who sets out to steal her crush object rather than moon over him, is sexier than the whole cast put together. Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Boring at best and insidious at worst. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Scratch the surface, and the movie's underpinnings are an insult to women everywhere -- the film is slick stupid propaganda for the myth of The One True Love that wastes the talents of fine actresses. Read full review
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