One for the Money
Lionsgate | Release Date: January 27, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
3
Negative:
14
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsJan 27, 2012
During a dinner with Stephanie's colorfully ethnic family, including a squandered Debbie Reynolds, the reaction shots arrive with bludgeoning regularity, and the soundtrack's burbling organ serves as an incessant reminder not to take anything seriously. Fortunately, there's no danger of that. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJan 28, 2012
The biggest problem One for the Money faces is trying to have it both ways: gritty-ethnic inner city vs. girly-girly comic. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesFeb 1, 2012
Wouldn't it make more sense on basic cable? Plum screen incarnate (and film producer) Katherine Heigl got her start in TV, on Roswell and Grey's Anatomy, and her public persona – a combination of prickliness and adoration-seeking that has famously grated on viewers' and critics' nerves alike – has historically played better there. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenJan 30, 2012
Most depressing is the spectacle of Debbie Reynolds in the de rigueur Betty White role - Hollywood having relegated seniors to the category of adorably "outrageous" while it caricatures single women as desperate updates on romance-novel heroines. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 27, 2012
An attempt to inaugurate a new movie franchise, something that might appeal to women and mystery fans. This is a perfectly sound ambition, but the movie, directed by Julie Anne Robinson from a script by Stacy Sherman, Karen Ray and Liz Brixius, is so weary and uninspired that it feels more like an exhausted end than an energetic beginning. Read full review
30
MovielineAlison WillmoreJan 27, 2012
As played by Heigl, Stephanie is mind-blowingly charmless. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonJan 27, 2012
Making even more appearances than the rodent is the Big Gulp; the lady bounty hunter is constantly consuming junk - though at least when Heigl is snacking, she isn't talking. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 27, 2012
Starring a painfully awkward Katherine Heigl, One for the Money mostly resembles a failed television pilot. Read full review
25
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJan 28, 2012
I guess I can't call the movie sexist as it was largely produced, directed and written by women. So I'll settle for calling it dull, corny and amateurish instead. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundJan 27, 2012
One for the Money is like The Bounty Hunter by Andy Tennant, if you dipped it in self-tanner and strapped some Four Loko on it. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJan 27, 2012
It will have you groaning between yawns. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJan 26, 2012
Listlessly directed by Julie Anne Robinson (Miley Cyrus's The Last Song) from a script written by a trio of writers (Stacy Sherman, Karen Ray and Liz Brixius), One for the Money is tepidly glib throughout. Read full review
20
Time OutNick SchagerJan 28, 2012
Flirty bickering is rampant but, courtesy of Heigl's inert performance, there's no heat or humor to the proceedings, just an avalanche of grating big-hair-and-bad-accent New Joisey caricatures. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJan 27, 2012
She's (Heigl) disastrously miscast as a character beloved by fans of novelist Janet Evanovich. Read full review
10
VarietyAndrew BarkerJan 27, 2012
Tedious and tonally inept. Read full review
0
Boxoffice MagazineDavid EhrlichJan 27, 2012
One for the Money is as static and ugly as romantic-comedies get, the distractingly fragmented coverage of simple dialogue scenes suggesting a general ineptitude that's rare at the studio level. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversJan 27, 2012
Everything in One for the Money rings cringingly false, from Heigl's absurd Snooki accent to Plum's romance with Joe Morelli, an Italian cop, played by – faith and begorrah – Jason O'Mara. To dismiss Julie Anne Robinson's direction as clueless would be a kindness. Read full review
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