Love Stinks
Independent Artists (II) | Release Date: September 10, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
23
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
18
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Miami HeraldPhoebe Flowers
A sporadically hilarious, acid-tongued romp through the darker sides of romance that refuses to back down.
50
New York PostRod Dreher
A lame TV sitcom with big-screen ambition that's almost touching in its hopelessness. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
There's more than a hint of self-pitying male-castration fantasy in writer-director Jeff Franklin's portrayal. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
A mean-spirited comedy...that steals the rampaging-psycho-chick formula from ``Fatal Attraction'' and tries to make it funny. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAnita Gates
A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeCate McQuaid
It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too. Read full review
38
USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]
Love Stinks is what bad network TV comedy would be like if there were no censorship and less talent. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks. Read full review
30
Film.comRobert Horton
A gyno-phobic fantasy about the date who won't go away. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSarah Hepola
Another frivolous product of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive. Read full review
29
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
A drearily over-cynical farce. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianOther (Specify)
Whatever stinks in this theater, it isn't love. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
Lowbrow humor is one thing...but Love Stinks sinks the bar beyond comprehension. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
There's gangsta rap with funnier insights into the opposite sex. Read full review
20
Film.comTom Keogh
A painfully unfunny movie. Read full review
20
VarietyRobert Koehler
Lacks the comic style or abandon to make its cynical turn on male-female relationships anything more than a short-lived stunt. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Has a sour undertone that strangles its cheap laughs. Read full review
16
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty. Read full review
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneBarbara Shulgasser
Stewart's insistently ironic delivery of every line becomes an irritant in a movie that is already monstrously irritating. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Rancid, misogynist comedy. Read full review
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