New Year's Eve Reviews

Movie Reviews

• ultimately, their intertwined, forced stories play out like schmaltzy Altman

  by Michael Rechtshaffen [Hollywood Reporter ]

• the stories are woven together in the clumsiest, most obvious fashion

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

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

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• the jokes are corny and not funny. There really may not be a single laugh in the picture

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• the entire movie melts into goo

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

• stuck behind the velvet rope, watching a parade of celebrities who exhibit no real connection to ordinary human behavior

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• many key narrative moments look strangely gauzy and ill shot

  by Andrew Barker [Variety ]

• it's the sole instance in a proudly superficial product that lands, quietly, at a human midpoint between synthetic happiness and manufactured pathos

  by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]

• it's difficult to distinguish which of the story lines most outrageously bids for our tears

  by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice ]

• it's big and shiny and crowded and no matter how much you might look forward to it, it never lives up to the hype

  by Dave McGinn [Globe and Mail ]

• it's a collection of syrupy vignettes stitched together to create a celeb crazy quilt

  by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]

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

  by Kerry Lengel [Arizona Republic ]

• if you find those jokes funny, this is definitely the movie for you

  Review rate : D- by Eric D. Snider [Film.com ]

• can't think of a better metaphor for the movie

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• a soul-sucking monument to Hollywood greed and saccharine holiday culture

  by Sara Stewart [New York Post ]

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