Valentine's Day
New Line Cinema | Release Date: February 12, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
14
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
It is a pleasant, undemanding movie that takes place over 18 hours on V-Day and considers Very Attractive People whose romantic destinies converge, diverge, and cloverleaf like the interstates threading through California's Southland. Read full review
75
NPRElla Taylor
If Marshall is an unrepentant Tory on some issues -- Valentine's Day stumps for teen abstinence and marrying your best friend, and warns that career women may end up alone -- he is open-hearted and generously conciliatory on gay rights, and he implies quite casually that multi-culti coupling may be the surest way to dispose of racism. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
There are lots of cameos, as well, too many to count. However, it is worth mentioning that singer Taylor Swift shows up in a couple of scenes, playing a vapid Valley girl, and she's very funny. Read full review
75
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
Manages to overcome its flaws and become a charming love letter to love itself -- and a pitch-perfect V-Day date film to boot. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
The surprising thing here is how smoothly this over-iced cake goes down. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Yet another Hollywood romantic comedy that's all but devoid of romance and laughs. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
As gooey and lacking in protein as a chocolate holiday bonbon, Valentine's Day plays like a feature-length commercial produced by the Friends of the Valentine Promotional Society. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Valentine's Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think it's more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do NOT date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
In sum it plays like 12 landlocked episodes of "The Love Boat" rammed together, though without the same rate of intercourse. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
What might have seemed like a lively idea -- an all-star roundelay about love in Los Angeles -- is as fossilized as the wooly mammoths in the La Brea Tar Pits. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineMark Keizer
A classic case of being too much of a not-very-good thing. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
There are so many romantic-comedy cliches crammed into Valentine's Day that watching it feels like surfing through the channels of an all-chick-flick cable service. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
The veteran Marshall has proved a quick study, serving up the pastiche with panache so the stars mostly shine, the story snippets mostly amuse and you'll barely notice all the empty spots where a plot used to be. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
In your typical subpar Hollywood romcom, there’s only one tedious love story to put up with. Well, Valentine’s Day (such a clever title) does a whole lot better than that: It offers 10 tedious love stories to put up with. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Valentine's Day is sugary, sappy and totally predictable. It's also what a whole lot of women are likely to want. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The film's main problems are script-related. Most of the stories aren't merely perfunctory; they're superficial. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
There's far too much going on in Valentine's Day, and far too little of it is worth the trouble. Read full review
40
TimeMary Pols
The film skips along pleasantly, supremely confident in its own cuteness and utterly unapologetic about how shallow or contrived it might be. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
It’s an American "Love Actually" without the warmth that writer-director Richard Curtis stuffs into his all-star confections, without the wit, without much love, actually. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
This is many lousy movies for the price of one. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The film feels as calculatedly sentimental as one of those bland pink candy hearts. Read full review
38
Washington PostJen Chaney
Largely relies on stale gender stereotypes and tired comedy routines that don't elicit much laughter. Read full review
30
Village VoiceKarina Longworth
Shoddy enough within its primary genre, Valentine's Day becomes deadly in its attempt to be a Los Angeles Ensemble Movie. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
Valueless as entertainment, it’s still useful as a disambiguation tool for those who confuse Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel, or Taylor Dayne and Taylor Swift. Read full review
30
SlateDana Stevens
What it lacks in charm, humor, and intelligence, it makes up for in sheer volume. Read full review
25
ObserverRex Reed
It’s a romantic piffle stuffed with so much candy that your skin could break out. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Explores love in all its myriad forms, from the sickeningly sappy to the cornball to the groaningly precious and obnoxiously cute. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Valentine's Day is a date movie from hell. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Aggressively unfunny and unromantic, Valentine’s Day’s chief concern appears to have been the corralling of its cast of a thousand stars; it seems far less attention was paid to what to do with that cast once assembled. Read full review
20
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
This might not be the Titanic of romantic comedies (it’s tugboat size), but it’s a disaster: cynically made, barely directed, terribly written. But quick: there’s still time to escape! Read full review
20
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A Garry Marshall movie has to be funny in order to be anything at all, and this one is so deeply involved with its pseudo-meaningful roundelay of beautiful but inexplicably lovelorn people as to be teeth-grindingly, mind-warpingly boring. Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
Less funny or romantic than your average colonoscopy, this cringe-inducing bore provides dubious employment for four Oscar winners, two nominees and a raft of TV performers. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
How you feel about Valentine's Day may depend on how you feel when someone really, really cute -- and someone you're really, really fond of -- gives you a nasty box of cheap chocolate on Valentine's Day, picked up at the corner Rite Aid and delivered with the price tag still attached. Read full review
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