Morning Glory
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 10, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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18
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNov 9, 2010
Comedies open every week. This is the kind I like best. It grows from human nature and is about how people do their jobs and live their lives. Read full review
80
EmpireStaff (Not credited)Jan 17, 2011
Every one of its cues might be tele-prompted, but this is an assured, likable comedy. Ford is as good as he's been in ages, but the stand-out is McAdams. If there were any justice, the movie would send her stellar. Read full review
80
Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonNov 10, 2010
Ford is hilarious and brooding, deeply wrinkled and deeply intimidating. He's got the best lines, courtesy of screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (of the repellent "27 Dresses" and the much better "The Devil Wears Prada"). Read full review
80
MovielineStephanie ZacharekNov 10, 2010
Breezy and enjoyable. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasNov 11, 2010
Patrick Wilson rounds out the cast as McAdams' love interest, but his presence seems necessary only to classify Morning Glory as a romantic comedy. The heart of the movie is really McAdams' wonderfully contentious relationship with Ford. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianMarc MohanNov 10, 2010
Rather like a four-hour episode of "Today": painless enough, leavening superficiality with substance, allowing you to watch and still do the laundry without missing anything vital. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanNov 10, 2010
The acting is so exact and the timing so crisp that it delivers precisely the satisfaction you'd anticipate. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 10, 2010
The film is at its best when it is at its most goofy, at times coming close to the laugh-aloud outrageousness of Will Ferrell's "Anchorman." Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedNov 9, 2010
Some of the on-camera bitchery between Mr. Ford and Ms. Keaton is laugh-out-loud witty. For the most part, Morning Glory is a delicious movie that will make you jump for joy. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsNov 9, 2010
Mainstream moviemaking at its most proficient, with a zippy script, comfort-food casting and a breakout performance by a deserving star. Read full review
70
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNov 10, 2010
This often-witty baby-of-"Broadcast News" tries hard to be liked, like the TV fluff it's built around. The news is that, often, it succeeds. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirNov 9, 2010
This is a brash, lightweight backstage comedy that looks lovely, doesn't insult its audience and uses its stars, both young and old, to terrific effect. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNov 10, 2010
Only a spunky cast prevents the film from being as tedious as a test pattern. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanNov 10, 2010
Where Broadcast News mourned the trivialization of the nightly news, Morning Glory asks you to learn to stop worrying and love the trivia. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 11, 2010
A tart, terrific comedy that gives Harrison Ford his best and funniest role in years. Read full review
63
New York PostLou LumenickNov 10, 2010
It includes more than a few clever lines, and boasts a stellar cast, including the underutilized Diane Keaton. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyNov 9, 2010
In rhythm, humor and performance, Morning Glory is, at best, sporadic. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrNov 9, 2010
Morning Glory is itself a work of extreme fluff, a lightweight bauble about the morning-show wars that floats on the updrafts of character comedy until it charmingly self-destructs in the final act. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 9, 2010
If the romantic comedy Morning Glory clicks with audiences, the McAdams factor surely will be the reason why. Read full review
60
TimeRichard CorlissNov 13, 2010
Morning Glory is a cut above most other recent light fare, but not a prime cut. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNov 9, 2010
Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn't always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 9, 2010
A passably amusing romantic comedy with a laugh-strewn script that's almost undone by the hard sell of an enterprise that drills every emotional beat into your head. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesNov 11, 2010
McAdams is typically effervescent here, but she can't rescue this weak comedy from a wooden Ford, whose stick-up-the-ass character is unimaginatively goosed by screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesNov 10, 2010
Morning Glory had the capacity to be a smarter, tarter picture, though it's not bad as is: well-acted and ingratiating, with at least one howlingly funny sequence. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayNov 10, 2010
Even Mary Tyler Moore's sunny but vulnerable Mary Richards or Tina Fey's Liz Lemon seem more fleshily real than Becky. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorNov 10, 2010
Yes, it's "The Devil Wears Prada," redux. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezNov 10, 2010
Someone apparently forgot to tell Harrison Ford he was starring in a comedy when he was cast in Morning Glory. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 9, 2010
Roger Michell directs it as though it were an uproarious comedy, but the laughs are light, and the story's real appeal lies in its behind-the-scenes look at the manners and politics of morning television. Read full review
50
USA TodayScott BowlesNov 9, 2010
This just in: Morning Glory can't decide whether to skewer the morning news or wallow in its pap. Read full review
50
Village VoiceKarina LongworthNov 9, 2010
The only love Morning Glory truly cares about is the passionate but sexless amour fou between a girl and her work. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreNov 9, 2010
A barely serviceable romantic comedy. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttNov 6, 2010
It merely recycles 1987's "Broadcast News" with only a single reference to YouTube. Read full review
50
VarietyAndrew BarkerNov 6, 2010
A genially midrange if overlong romantic comedy. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerNov 10, 2010
Morning Glory isn't targeting the dumbing down of TV news. It's pandering to the audience that craves the dumbness. Read full review
40
The New YorkerDavid DenbyNov 15, 2010
Morning Glory has a depressed, rancid air. [22 Nov. 2010, p. 141]
40
Time OutDavid FearNov 10, 2010
This charmless movie thinks it can soft-sell its date-night love story and its media meta-jabs without people feeling they've been bamboozled on either count. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 9, 2010
It's a slight movie that makes "Broadcast News" look like "All the President's Men" in comparison. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternNov 11, 2010
This production is a mess for many reasons, most of them having to do with its frantic efforts to be funny. Read full review
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