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New Year's Eve is a perfect example of why the adjective "Hollywood" is so often used as a pejorative.

-Rafer GuzmanFull Review

The only entertaining way to watch New Year's Eve is as a cruel experiment in which performers stranded with absolutely no script support are forced to subsist on pure presence, which quickly becomes a blood sport in which only a few survive.

-Linda HolmesFull Review

Written on the level of a bad episode of The Love Boat, this is one of those concoctions that intertwines about 10 storylines and then concludes with a cherry on top.

-Tom LongFull Review

The only thing that can inspire more cynicism than a holiday's coerced emotions may be a film that both exploits and celebrates said emotions.

-Lisa KennedyFull Review

It's all perfectly pleasant and perfectly harmless and perfectly bland.

-Richard RoeperFull Review

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? I don't know, but "New Year's Eve" sure should be.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

This New Year's Eve leaves you feeling like you've got no one to kiss at midnight.

-Dave McGinnFull Review

Sags when it should shimmer, labors clunkily when it should glide and - most unforgivably - plops some otherwise attractive and even talented actors into roles that are completely outside their physical and psychic comfort zone.

-Ann HornadayFull Review

A soul-sucking monument to Hollywood greed and saccharine holiday culture.

-Sara StewartFull Review

We hope that somewhere amid the streamers and popping champagne corks director Marshall is making a resolution to stop making these movies.

-Linda BarnardFull Review

An even lazier, even dumber re-hash of Valentine's Day - a movie that was already very lazy and dumb to begin with.

-Eric D. SniderFull Review

What can be said about a movie that is nice and awful? That has a warm spirit and is 100 percent phony? That has all the stars in the galaxy and all the appeal of rotting fish?

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

The screenplay isn't written so much as assembled in carefully slotted little blocks, following the rules of a screenwriting textbook.

-Stephen HoldenFull Review

The film is like one of those Robert Altman big-canvas movies minus the inspiration.

-Peter RainerFull Review

Why bother with a new title? New Year's Eve is simply 2010's Valentine's Day all over again, and it's about as appealing as a flute of cheap Champagne left over from the last holiday.

-Claudia PuigFull Review

The movie plays like a time warp to 1951. The opening shot of the movie is a horse and buggy. Jon Bon Jovi plays pop music's hottest superstar. You half expect the actors to pass a kissing booth or an organ grinder with a leashed monkey.

-Colin CovertFull Review

This is more of a clown car than it is a movie.

-David HiltbrandFull Review

"New Year's Eve'' is fun in the way that eating at a buffet is fun. It's two hours of foods that have nothing to do with each other piled high on a plate because it was too cheap to resist.

-Wesley MorrisFull Review

Director Garry Marshall follows last year's Valentine's Day with New Year's Eve where an all-star cast lines up to collect paychecks - at our expense!

-Peter TraversFull Review

An inferior retread of Marshall's equally contrived "Valentine's Day," only dressed up with coats and confetti.

-Elizabeth WeitzmanFull Review

Neither nicely written, nor nicely acted nor nicely made.

-Mary F. PolsFull Review

New Year's Eve is not unbearable. It's not bad, but it's not good, either.

-Connie OgleFull Review

Marshall knows a certain kind of comedy, but his technique has a way of pitting performers squarely against their own material.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

A movie I often found myself laughing at in ridicule, and one that also gave me a lump in the throat. So I guess you could say I had a good time.

-Owen GleibermanFull Review

Like the stroke of midnight, "New Year's Eve" disappears almost instantly, leaving little behind but limp streamers and the sense that, surely, there was a better party going on somewhere else.

-Moira MacDonaldFull Review

How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do?

-Roger EbertFull Review

It is the cinematic equivalent of a greeting card: Both the sentiment and the laughs are plentiful, cheap and forgettable.

-Kerry LengelFull Review

Offering around a dozen barely there, aggressively agreeable mini-stories spliced together and spit out with lawnmower-style eloquence, the film is pushed to punishing lengths by the engorged cast list.

-Andrew BarkerFull Review

The result proves to be as appealing and effervescent as a flute of flat champagne.

-Michael RechtshaffenFull Review

If there is some kind of world record for schmaltz, this may have set it.

-Jake CoyleFull Review


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