| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...a screwball comedy that occasionally becomes something more." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Geoff Berkshire |
"...perfectly good but never truly great." more... |
B |
E! Online
Alex Markerson |
"...a welcome return to form after such throwaways as The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty." more... |
B+ |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...overplowed..." more... |
C |
filmcritic.com
Bill Gibron |
"...even in the clichéd arena of affairs of the heart, the boys are capable of something subversive, and quite special." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"The Coen brothers are in a goofy mood as pure lunacy engulfs a spy thriller." more... |
B+ |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"A bleakly funny spoof on spy films as well as a melancholy riff on despairing lives..." more... |
B+ |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"Most audiences will find it a head-scratcher with a dismaying act of violence and a haphazard plot that fizzles out without any of the main characters on-screen." more... |
B- |
New York Times
Mahnola Dargis |
"...clubby, predictably self-amused comedy..." more... |
C |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"This is a thriller with a high quotient of comedic elements or, if you prefer, a comedy with a high quotient of thriller elements." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...a crazy-quilt comic thriller that takes on our growing national stupidity in the form of a sex farce." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter Addiego |
"The actors are having a great time." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"...one of the Coens' more playful projects..." more... |
B |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"After their best-picture Oscar for the violent No Country for Old Men, the Coens are back to misanthropic madness." more... |
B |
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