| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...a toothless political satire..." more... |
C |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...as to be one of the most frustrating dropped balls in recent multiplex memory." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"...indecisive and diffident..." more... |
C- |
E! Online
Dezhda Mountz |
"Entire chunks of the film go by with zero belly laughs..." more... |
C- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"There's not a moment in Man of the Year when Williams isn't straining or hectoring..." more... |
C- |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"The humor's too stale for it to be a successful comedy, and the suspense is stretched too thin for it to be a riveting thriller." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Weak political comedy masquerading as a weak political thriller." more... |
D |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...longer than the FDR administration, less funny than Calvin Coolidge and deader than Abe Lincoln..." more... |
D |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"The two plots converge in a multigenre pileup that wrecks whatever comic momentum the movie might have had." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The film contains elements of a comedy, a thriller, a political satire, and a romance, but all are given short shrift." more... |
B- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...a genre-less, imaginative riff by an intelligent filmmaker on the state of the country." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...the movie's satire is fairly gutless..." more... |
C+ |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"When great premises go wrong, the result is movies like Man of the Year." more... |
C |
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