| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: December 22, 1972 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Eddie Albert's Oscar-nominated slow burn as the loathing father in The Heartbreak Kid is the funniest portrayal of Midwestern WASP-ism in movie history. [08 Feb 2002]
The Heartbreak Kid occasionally goes for laughs without shame (which is what has always bothered me about Simon's brand of New York comedy), but behind the laughs there is, for a change, a real understanding of character — which is something that I suspect, can be attribued to Miss May.
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[May] has a knack for defusing the pain without killing the joke.
May's second feature is a funny and sometimes side-splitting film whose whole never approaches the success of its best moments in which the two levels of romantic fantasy and satire are reconciled. [28 Dec 1972, p.53]
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