Music and Lyrics
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: February 14, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
11
Negative:
2
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83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The movie is an unusually witty and intelligent romantic comedy and Hollywood's best Valentine's Day gift in years. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Music and Lyrics is frequently appealing, often witty, and occasionally funny, but it's not going to convert skeptics and cynics into sentimentalists. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Grant and Barrymore are very enjoyable together onscreen. Who would've guessed that Barrymore would turn into such a deft comedian? Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia Puig
This appealing romantic comedy undertakes the conventions of the formula without an inordinate amount of clichés. Music also infuses the overall plot with a satire of the music industry, and the pop tunes and lyrics are catchy. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
This movie doesn't pretend to be anything more than a cheerful night out, and on that count it scores. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The planets aligned favorably, and this "Music" is sweet without cloying the appetite. It follows the meetcute-kissyface-breakup-reunion pattern of most of its kind, but the behavior seems more genuine and the situations less forced. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
As a premise, this is thinner than a strand of cotton candy, but fairy tales have been hung from less, and what keeps this one together is the surprisingly easy chemistry between Grant and Barrymore. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The two generate more heart than they do heat, but that's the point. You want to see them together not just because they're adorable, but because you believe that their characters can take each other to a place neither could get to on their own. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Lawrence's take on pop music success is exactly right, satiric without being absurdist, and therefore a prize worth the effort. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The film's a bit like a dessert that could have been dinner, particularly with so many winning elements (including songs by Fountains Of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger and a brief appearance from a wickedly sleazy Campbell Scott). But dessert isn't a bad thing either, particularly when it's prepared with this much heart. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
An agreeably loopy romantic comedy that bounces along effortlessly on the genuine chemistry of leads Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Grant carries the day as the fortysomething lad still living off his youth and just about getting away with it. Read full review
70
SalonStephanie Zacharek
It may be slight, but it's also buoyant and pleasurable, partly because the leads make the whole thing feel like a spontaneous duet. Lawrence trusts them to carry the picture, without feeling the need to throw in a lot of extraneous fluff. Read full review
70
Washington PostStephen Hunter
I don't think the ending is up to the rest of the movie, but Grant and Barrymore are great together, and the movie has both zing and song. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Grant is game for a new level of meta-ha-ha, joke's-on-me in Music and Lyrics. But with Drew Barrymore as his costar, this bland, light romantic comedy insists on keeping the commentary as disposable as one of the '80s gumball tunes Grant used to swivel to as Alex Fletcher, a washed-up '80s pop star. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
In the end, the movie's just the kind of enjoyably empty-headed fluff it celebrates and mocks. It sits up, it begs, eventually it plays dead, and still you want to pat it on the head. It's a good dog. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Fortunately, director-writer Marc Lawrence (he also created the Hugh Grant-Sandra Bullock comedy "Two Weeks Notice") manages saccharine saturation by tempering his stars' familiar appeal with enough dry wit to make this low-key romantic comedy a not-too-sticky Valentine's Day offering. Read full review
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