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The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)   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 "Crude, sophomoric, funny and very, very sweet." more... B   Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...the spirit of The 40-Year-Old Virgin is not one of mockery, at least not exclusively." more... B   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...The 40-Year-Old Virgin is surprisingly insightful, as buddy comedies go, and it has a good heart and a lovable hero." more... A- Chicago Tribune Gene Seymour "Care and thought went into The 40-Year-Old Virgin beyond its nudge-nudge, wink-wink premise..." more... B   E! Online "Carell provides more than enough pizzazz and boyishness to make this work as a comedy and a bit of a charmer." more... B   Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "...buoyantly clever and amusing..." more... A- filmcritic.com David Levine "...a must see." more... B+ Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Sticking to one joke in an unconscionably long film makes for a very stale, witless and repetitive comedy." more... D   New York Post Lou Lumenick "...essentially the joke spelled out in the title stretched out for nearly two hours..." more... C+ New York Times Manohla Dargis "...(Steve Carell's) tamped-down performance style, propelled by his heavy, lurching eyebrows, dovetails nicely with Mr. Apatow's relatively low-key direction." more... A- ReelViews James Berardinelli "...proof that motion picture comedies can still be funny." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "A howlingly comic revel in bad taste..." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub "Despite a very lowbrow premise, the profanity-packed script is hilarious, and it also has a good heart." more... B+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "It's so utterly raunchy it seems to have been designed as entertainment for a stag party." more... C- USA Today Claudia Puig "The 40-Year-Old Virgin is consistently funnier than the summer's next-best comedy, Wedding Crashers." more... B   * 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...)