Town & Country
New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 27, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
11
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
There is really nothing wrong with Peter Chelsom's Town & Country that younger stars would not have solved. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
There are several stretches when the movie is actually hilarious.
60
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Where Town and Country gets really good and weird – and I do mean good – is only after about an hour into it in deepest, darkest Idaho. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen Holden
What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It may be a haphazard mess, but it's actually pretty funny. Read full review
60
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
Nowhere near as bad as distributor New Line seems to think. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The humor here is overcooked to the point of limpness.
50
San Francisco ChronicleWesley Morris
The movie's not bad enough to be world-ending, merely clumsy. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Not unlike "Eyes Wide Shut," this is an eerily earnest contemplation of fidelity, and it's pitched as farce. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Sets up a cast -- and then proceeds to knock them down like ducks in a shooting gallery. Read full review
40
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A lot of talent on both sides of the camera operating in low gear. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
This should have been Beatty's "Wonder Boys," but the filmmakers don't seem to realize they've sent their hero on a sexual adventure that neither his heart nor his dick needs to take. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The surprise behind Town and Country isn't that the director started filming without a finished script, but that he ever thought he had the start of one. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
The film is clearly an unfinished work and one that feels like a ragged assemblage of parts from at least two entirely different movies all with the same cast.
30
Film.comRobert Horton
Little entertainment value. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineFrank Lovece
So bewildering it's almost entertaining, this comedy of fiftysomethings and their extramarital affairs is one of those films you can actually see flailing for life. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
What it doesn't have is a script that has anything original, cohesive, or, gasp -- funny -- to say. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny. Read full review
20
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The plot feels arbitrary and seems driven to invent new places for its protagonists to go, as if to justify a budget on which Woody Allen could have made six much better films. Read full review
20
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Limps into theaters at long last, practically begging, with every arthritic pratfall, to be put out of its misery. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The script's tone veers chaotically -- and ambitiously -- at once aiming for a Noel Coward kind of elegant sparring, then for the lightly raunchy, rompy absurdism of "What's New, Pussycat?" Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Ragging on Town & Country is like shooting a school of fish that's already belly up in a fetid barrel, but the movie's ineptitude is almost incomparable.
10
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
It's "Shampoo," 30 years after. What a surprise, then, that this effort ranks lower even than the Steve Martin remake of "The Out-of-Towners." Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Seems merely tired and stale, the opposite of fresh, marked by ideas for jokes rather than things that are actually funny. Then, without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye. Read full review
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