Kissing Jessica Stein
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: March 13, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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60
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Eventually Stein's habit of dodging its own issues grows frustrating. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Westfeldt becomes irritating. That's one of the film's points, but it's made a little too well. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Amusing but extremely derivative. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film is relentlessly peppy, often quite funny, sometimes a bit too convinced of its own adorableness and ultimately as smoothly reassuring as a TV sitcom. Read full review
40
New Times (L.A.)Robert Wilonsky
The actual finale, which so betrays what's come before it that it leaves one walking out of the theater holding a grudge against what was. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Starts out as a lark, but veers into grittier, more emotionally complex territory -- just like a real relationship -- that the film doesn't have the chops to sustain. Read full review
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