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The kind of flick that gives fluff a good name.

-Rick GroenFull Review

The premise falters along with much of the shtick.

-Rita Kempley

Both harmlessly cynical and deeply fatuous.

-Peter RainerFull Review

America's Sweethearts is a balloon, all right -- a lead one.

-Peter Travers

A boring, brain-dead flop.

-Rex ReedFull Review

Too cynically slick and emotionally shallow.

-Andrew SarrisFull Review

A lackluster screwball comedy and dubious Julia Roberts vehicle.

-J. HobermanFull Review

A clunky ribbing of the movie industry.

-Jonathan RosenbaumFull Review

The movie is a polished muddle, fitfully amusing but with no spine.

-David EdelsteinFull Review

It's a perfectly fine setup for romantic-comedy capering, with enough good one-liners to satisfy. But Roth seems a bit at sea with his powerhouse cast.

-Moira MacDonaldFull Review

Doesn't contain a single genuine emotion. It's just as bogus and hollow as the movie business it portrays.

-Edward GuthmannFull Review

A film that manages the frustrating feat of being pleasant and misguided at the same time.

-Joe BaltakeFull Review

Occasionally amusing, but also an irritating mess.

-John AndersonFull Review

As undemanding summer movies go, America's Sweethearts is surprisingly funny and sweet, despite some missed comic opportunities and curious casting choices.

-Lou Lumenick

For the farce it so desperately wants to be, the film often feels slack and too reliant on so-so punch lines for laughs.

-Rene RodriguezFull Review

You go to America's Sweethearts anticipating a prime flossy, glossy entertainment. You come away better by a few laughs but with expectations sadly deflated.

-Susan StarkFull Review

Given its subject matter, it's too genial to cut deep.

-Steven RosenFull Review

The script is full of half-considered character stances.

-Paul TataraFull Review

All these good actors and all Crystal's sass and witty candor can't bring back the heyday of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. Or even, most of the time, their off-days.

-Michael WilmingtonFull Review

America's Sweethearts recycles Singin' in the Rain but lacks the sassy genius of that 1952 musical.

-Roger EbertFull Review

The film is longer on one-liners than inventiveness, focus, and sharp characterization.

-Jay Carr

Not so much a terrible movie as a tryingly bland one, the star-stuffed America's Sweethearts actually manages to make Entertainment Tonight seem dangerous by comparison.

-Geoff PevereFull Review

The movie has no sparkle, no charm, nothing to sweep us off our feet.

-Charles TaylorFull Review

A terrific romantic comedy about narcissism, insincerity, lunacy and glamour.

-Jay Boyar

Like a bottle of lukewarm Champagne -- an expensive one, judging by the label -- America's Sweethearts opens with a promising burst of effervescence and quickly goes flat.

-A.O. ScottFull Review

[T]he jokes mostly fell flat.

-Eric HarrisonFull Review

It has the misfortune of being both too inside for outsiders and too unlikely for those in the know.

-Terry LawsonFull Review

A slam-dunk for Julia Roberts.

-Desson Thomson


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