Other than a high cuteness factor, there's not much here. This is a warmed-over, low-end recycling of director Rob Reiner's own "When Harry Met Sally."Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Though it has some mildly amusing moments (mostly in the visuals accompanying the novel's narration), Alex & Emma is disappointing, neither very romantic nor very comic.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Reiner gets lucky with his two stars. Wilson has charm to spare, and Hudson brings humor and sexiness to playing Emma and four au pair girls from different countries. But even they can't float a balloon with lead in it.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Dull and listless from the start, partly because the leads fail to connect and partly because both the script and the direction let them down.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Emma writes everything down and then offers helpful suggestions, although she fails to supply the most useful observation of all, which would be to observe that the entire novel is complete crap.Read Full Review »
It's hard to say what's more excruciating: Alex's novel, which is like ''The Great Gatsby'' rewritten by Lizzie McGuire, or his quarrelsome flirtation with Emma, who has no existence as a character apart from her drive to reshape Alex into a specimen of respectable tamed manhood.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
A stunningly inert piece of cinema, a movie that basically boils down to serial shots of people talking to each other.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
The inside story is weak, dull and head-poundingly boring, and the outside story is only slightly better, thanks to the lukewarm likability of its two stars.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
A painfully contrived and artificial exercise in futility.Read Full Review »
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