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Down with Love
2003
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Down with Love
Positive Reviews
37
Negative reviews
10
Average Rating
3.3
/5
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1.5
Like Far From Heaven, the film doesnt send up its inspiration so much as reboot it.
Av Club
4.0
And above all, this is fun stuff, a shiny cocktail shaker of a film that mostly skips the Austin Powers school of parody and instead aims to be an exa ..
Austin Chronicle
4.0
96mins Designed as an affectionate send up of the Doris Day Rock Hudson romantic comedies of the early 1960s, the campy and colorful Down With Love a ..
Screen Daily
3.8
And it relishes the big scene where a hypocrite gets his comeuppance.The very concept of comeuppance is obsolete in these permissive modern times, whe ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Thats not to say that this movie isnt enjoyable, because it definitely is especially as a date movie with your honey bunny.
JoBlo
3.1
Unfortunately, most of the humor comes from someplace old and tired and the film suffers through way too many lengthy dead spots.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.8
Its amazingly simple and breezy stuff but how completely and unexpectedly refreshing it is.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.5
The plot is so outlandish the film probably qualifies as a screwball comedy, and as a satire on the genre.This kind of romantic comedy hasnt been seen ..
Lariat
3.2
This film gets the style right, but the story it tells is identical to the sort we see and are tired of in modern romantic comedies.
Eric Ds Nider
3.3
Not quite as fluffily enjoyable as some of its predecessors, but a fairly entertaining and terrific effort of paying homage nonetheless, Down With Lov ..
Screen It
3.0
In the end the colours and frills win us over this is a thoroughly enjoyable bit of fluff, playing with serious ideas about the role of the sexes with ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
It is, of course, entirely possible that the joke will be lost on mainstream audiences, but for film fans everywhere this is an unadulterated treat.
View London
1.3
Beneath its color drenched images and vintage wide screen cinematography lurks a flatly written script directed with a lack of gracefulness and imagin ..
Cs Monitor
1.0
Its at once shrill in its brightness and stultifying in its hermetically sealed, self conscious campiness.
Film Journal
5.0
Down With Love may all be largely insubstantial fun, but its undeniably so and sweet tempered.
Mountain X
3.8
Jerry Holt, Star Tribune A man was fatally shot by St. Paul police in the 900 block of St. Anthony Avenue early on Sunday, Aug. 5.
Star Tribune
5.0
As a confirmed movie addict, Ive seen all those old Doris Day romantic comedies like Pillow Talk and loved every one of them.So why did I enjoy Down w ..
Reel Talk Reviews
2.5
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.5
The appeal, and mellow absurdity, of the Pillow Talk genre was the way it fetishized every detail of the differences between the sexes.
Ew
2.5
For a film with so much in its corner I found it hard to believe that it would fail so much.It has so much potential to be clever but its goofy, it ca ..
Cinema Crazed
1.5
You cant accuse the movie of ducking the big themes of the 60s sex comedy.
Slate
3.0
This, along with a few clumsy scenes and a slight overdose of knowing humour, makes Down With Love more of a pleasant little diversion than a truly co ..
Empire
4.0
Perhaps surprisingly, it works better as a salute, and never quite reaches the heights of the movies that inspired it.
Common Sense Media
5.0
With zany deadpan humor that some will mistake for flippancy, it muscles the plot in a direction guaranteed to please modern audiences.
Sf Gate
5.0
Cruder than a 50s or 60s studio picture would be, it nonetheless retains a wonderful innocence: recalling a cinematic age when falling in love was dep ..
Bbc
2.5
Still, the Eve Ahlert Dennis Drake script has a gentle heart to humanize its sharp sitcom wit.
Time
2.5
By the time Zellweger delivers a last act oh my God is she still talking tirade, you may be tired of having had to watch the films proto feminist bubb ..
Slant Magazine
2.5
The most sincere thing about Down With Love is its deep insincerity.
Washington Post
2.8
The switcheroos and false identities build to the inevitable unmasking, when the audience has the rug pulled out from under them by a silly screenwrit ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Oh, for the days when the cads wore tuxes, had delicious accents, and were as all around scrumptious as Ewan McGregor.
Flickfilosopher
3.8
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
2.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
1.9
Down With Love wants to be this fun retro movie.Director Peyton Reed (Bring It On) sets the film up like a musical with lots of big staged sets elabor ..
Hollywood
2.8
But the script cant think of anything to do with this antique comedy style except broaden it into a grotesque caricature, and the edgy, retro cool bit ..
Seattle Pi
1.5
Unfortunately the best part of the movie is a dance performed by McGregor and Zellweger over the closing credits.
Tony Medley
3.8
(Director Peyton) Reed packs Love with ribald innuendo and zealously embellishes every aspect of 60s cinematic ambiance.
Spliced Wire
3.0
We asked for the top 100 OHIP billers and the Star has won at the Court of Appeal In another chapter of a four year legal battle that began with a Sta ..
The Star
3.8
The old fashioned title cards, split screen effects, cocktail culture soundtrack music and outrageously retro fashions would seem to label Down With L ..
Deseret News
4.4
You leave the theater with the happy reminder of just why you enjoy movies so much.
Three Movie Buffs
2.5
Six people were shot, and two women were killed, in various incidents of violence across Kansas City overnight.
Kansas City
3.1
This high energy fun unfortunately weakens after the film has acquainted us and its characters.
Ross Anthony
4.4
And Zellweger gets one of her most deft comic moments an unbroken take that would send the movie spinning out of control in lesser hands but keeps the ..
The Filmy Ap
4.4
An irresistible throwback to the glamour, wit and style that used to characterise Hollywood.
Montreal Film Journal
5.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
1.2
Sinks to unspeakably vulgar depths with nary a clue to how far its falling.
Flip Side Archive
2.0
The most unforgivable part of this film is the insanely frustrating surprise ending.Sure, I didnt expect it, but that didnt make it any good.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.5
96 photos of Woodward Dream Cruise through the years New York Giants 30, Detroit Lions 17 in preseason game at Ford Field Detroit reacts to passing of ..
Freep
2.5
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Movie Eye
3.5
Just in that one way, replies Rock.Where Rock Hudson inspired Todd Haynes to explore 1950s social mores, Rock Hudson has inspired Peyton Reed to explo ..
Films Nobs
2.2
Its no divine comedy, theres no real revelation, but the funny bits are up there with Jim Carreys best.Its going to be a big, summer hit.
Abc News Go
3.5
The best and the worst thing to be said about The Good Thief is that its clearly more of a crap table reproduction itself than a serious work of art.
Nicks Flick Picks
3.8
The nostalgic stuff is funny, but the movie turns into one note at parodying the stuff.
Fantastic A Daily
3.1
Its a pleasant enough diversion, but ultimately even emptier than the movies it spoofs.
Seattle Times
3.5
I was sorry when I learned that Michaels, the well known childrens hair cutting salon at Madison Avenue and 90th Street, went out of business recently ..
Ny Observer
3.5
Although the role wasnt a far cry from his role as Niles Crane in TVs Frasier, Hyde Pierce can make the leap to the film world.What stands out in the ..
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