If I Were You
Koch Lorber Films | Release Date: March 15, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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4
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Village VoiceMarsha McCreadieMar 12, 2013
If I Were You is a screwball comedy for Canadians—not LOL funny, but as crazy as you might expect Toronto to get. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickMar 14, 2013
If I Were You has more than its share of laughs, but director Joan Carr-Wiggin needed to cut half an hour to make this fly without interest flagging. She had the exact same problem with her last movie, “A Previous Engagement.’’ Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNick SchagerMar 11, 2013
A wannabe French-style infidelity farce that keeps indulging in unnecessary bathos and subplots. Read full review
40
Time OutAndrew SchenkerMar 12, 2013
It’s a complex geometry that’s mined for some interesting perspectives on romantic fulfillment, but the film’s comic sense (exemplified by a drunken Harden acting inappropriately) is slack and its dramatic conclusion unfulfilling. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 14, 2013
A modern cinematic equivalent of the sort of tired sex farces that used to populate Broadway with regularity, If I Were You simultaneously exploits and squanders the talents of its star, Marcia Gay Harden. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedMar 12, 2013
Mostly it just redefines the word “asinine.” Marcia Gay Harden never makes a wrong move, but this movie is so futile, one goes away convinced that the moves she makes are hardly worth making. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 14, 2013
This is Nancy Meyers territory, but leaden with passé observations about lovelorn women...and hardly ebullient as either oddball-pair comedy or housewife-revenge fantasy. Read full review
20
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMar 14, 2013
A comedy that is so scatterbrained and long-winded that much of it feels invented on the spot. (It’s also a half-hour too long.) Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMar 14, 2013
Hardworking Oscar winner Harden and beguiling Spanish star Watling do nothing for this haphazard film, which belatedly decides it wants to be a stage satire as the women lark into a ridiculous avant-garde production of “MacBeth.” Bloody awful. Read full review
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