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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "The movie is generally doltish..." more... C- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...a sweet, light-hearted fairy tale..." more... B   Chicago Tribune Mark Caro "This movie is phony, phony, phony..." more... D+ Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "...an old-fashioned romantic comedy lightly spiced with down-home jokes that exploit familiar stereotypes with care." more... B   E! Online "More fun than a greased-up pig on a Tuesday morning." more... B+ filmcritic.com Blake French "...the movie's obviousness doesn't matter, since it's the entertaining atmosphere that makes the film entertaining." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "(Reese) Witherspoon makes this slick and unfelt comedy more entertaining than it has any right to be." more... C+ Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis "Witherspoon has charmed her way through weak material before, but she's too inexperienced to save the character from director Andy Tennant..." more... C- New York Post Jonathan Foreman "...Witherspoon is such a delight...that she manages to make Sweet Home Alabama seem charming and funny." more... B- New York Times Stephen Holden "...the movie is in such a rush to entertain that it barely connects the dots of its story." more... B- ReelViews James Berardinelli "Die-hard fans of Witherspoon and the romantic comedy genre will probably find enough to like in this film to make it worth a trip to the theater." more... B- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...a date-movie winner..." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Curiel "...an inspired, at times hilarious love story..." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...it's no great shakes as either a screwball farce or a dewy-eyed romance." more... C+ USA Today Mike Clark "Alabama sours Witherspoon's sweetness." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)