Picture Perfect
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: August 1, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
0
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75
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
The best romantic comedies intoxicate like vintage champagne. Picture Perfect, on the other hand, is like a wine spritzer. Insubstantial and oversweet, it still refreshes as a midsummer brain cooler. [1 August 1997, p. 3D]
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Another contemporary story about a woman with a successful career punished with a lousy personal life. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Unfortunately, Picture Perfect uses embarrassing contrivances to sabotage what should have been a pleasant excursion down a familiar road. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
The film bounces busily among these players until it has to slow down and pretend to be sincere. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
An amiable romantic comedy. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's a shame the plot is so contrived, because parts of this movie are really pretty good. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Though "extremely mediocre" may seem like an oxymoron, no phrase better defines Picture Perfect. Aside from wearing, with visual discomfort, a series of absurdly revealing dresses, Aniston does little to distance herself from her "Friends" persona with this slightly less likable character. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Jennifer Aniston is a friend in need of a movie script that will really let her talent blossom. Picture Perfect is too TV-ish and timid a romantic farce to do the trick. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Another romantic comedy about a career woman who has everything except a man, is Jennifer Aniston's attempt to break out of her TV role. But she doesn't have the magic on the big screen to make us forget where she came from. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The result is a vacuous feel-good movie that leaves you feeling nothing at all. Read full review
40
SalonCharles Taylor
What Picture Perfect sells as romance is a junior high school health class morality lecture we all got years ago. And it was a crock then, too. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Olympia Dukakis and Illeana Douglas come off poorly in silly supporting roles that make Aniston seem to have screen presence by default. Her character's habit of compulsively adjusting her bodice ensures our attention has the proper focus. Read full review
40
EmpireAdam Smith
Aniston deports herself competently, here showing us nothing she hasn't on Friends, and Bacon is pretty much on autopilot as the company stud but it is Mohr who actually shines, skilfully giving an underwritten role a genuinely deft sense of nobility and charm. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Director Glenn Gordon Carron's movie is far more bearable when Kate is spinning lies and sticking her tongue in Kevin Bacon's desiccated bad boy. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJohn Anderson
It only serves to remind one of better movies, at a time when one needs no reminders. Read full review
40
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A well-upholstered but hopelessly contrived romantic comedy, Picture Perfect is too ineffectual to tickle either the funnybone or the heartstrings. Read full review
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