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Positive Reviews
16
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97
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1.6
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3.0
Too bad the film is woefully inconsistent about taking its own advice: It has plenty of plastic heart, but itd be hard to imagine a film that took few ..
Av Club
2.0
New Years Eve is dunderheaded kitsch, but its the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening.
EW
1.3
It must have taken a supreme effort of will for the filmmakers to resist showing any of the characters actually using Nivea.
Rogerebert
2.0
It broke ground by doing it quite well.And the cast was just so good.
Common Sense Media
1.5
Offering around a dozen barely there, aggressively agreeable mini stories spliced together and spit out with lawnmower style eloquence, the film is pu ..
Variety
0.6
The half hearted presence of these actors is the ultimate metaphor for the current tragedy facing the creative class.
1.3
Sags when it should shimmer, labors clunkily when it should glide and most unforgivably plops some otherwise attractive and even talented actors into ..
3.0
Its a great cast, but unfortunately they all have too little to do.Time pass fare.
ETimes (TOI)
1.5
While on the subject of dropping the ball, in spite of Marshalls endeavors to keep them all in the air, Fulgates cavalcade of cliched characters never ..
The Hollywood Reporter
1.0
Let me put it this way this is a film that is not even good enough to earn a spot at ShitFest.
E Film Critic
1.0
By my count the film features nine interlinked plot strands, each one more galling than the last.
Telegraph
1.3
What can be said about a movie that is nice and awful.That has a warm spirit and is 100 percent phony
San Francisco Chronicle
1.0
While some performances are good (Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer), theyre shackled by breathtakingly stupid storylines, and the attempt at a romantic wh ..
2.0
Magic Moment: In the most touching scene, Berrys late night date offers a bittersweet surprise.
Ny Daily News
1.0
In a way, I suppose its our fault for allowing a film like VALENTINES DAY to go by without organizing mass protests about it, but NEW YEARS EVE is som ..
JoBlo
0.6
This New Years Eve leaves you feeling like youve got no one to kiss at midnight.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
The comedy gets flat; the romance gets stale and the melodrama gets predictable.
Philly
2.0
The combination of cheap humor and sappy sentiment is all too pat, and...the characters are so cardboard that to call them stock sitcom types would be ..
One Guys Opinion
1.5
Mayans might have predicted the end of the world in 2012, but could they have known that the countdown to eternal hellfire would begin with Garry Mars ..
Village Voice
1.9
The Pfeiffer Efron storyline, worn as it is, has the most spark and most promise.Nobody else shows even a hint of chemistry.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.0
What worked before will likely work again, with little of the formula changed to bring audiences a slightly more advanced viewing experience.
Blu Ray
1.3
It has a reassuring certainty to it.It definitely appeals to a wide audience, and therefore hits on something very basic, some primal level of comfort ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
As if the film werent chock full of cliches already, it rolls out to Raise Your Glass.
1.3
Love rekindled, fresh starts and redemption are the themes, but that makes the screenplay sound far more substantial than it is.
Usa Today
3.1
The film is packed with predictable plot points and melodramatic performances, something that the average viewer will have a hard time overlooking.
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
If you find those jokes funny, this is definitely the movie for you.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
The result is a nice box of holiday chocolates; not Sees or Godiva, maybe, but good Russell Stover.
News Review
2.0
And its fair to say that Marshall dropped the ball with this one, too.
Radio Times
1.0
New Years Eve simply doesnt realize its a combination of both and blindly sets forth like its some grand piece of entertainment.
Screen It
0.0
Or they would if screenwriter Katherine Fugate knew how the hell to do that.Instead we get an avalanche of cliches.
Rolling Stone
1.0
Theres not one spark of recognisable truth as the filmmakers indulge in fantasy romance and trite moralising that actually makes you feel queasy.
Shadows On The Wall
0.5
But then, all the other characters in this movie are morons.Todays pop culture landscape hasnt exactly been crying out for a revival of Love, American ..
The Wrap
1.0
New Years Eve is a painfully contrived, poorly written ensemble romcom thats utterly devoid of both romance and comedy.
View London
1.3
The first film had split second glimmers of charm, but no such luck in this quick dash for box office cash.
News Day
2.0
The film is like one of those Robert Altman big canvas movies minus the inspiration.
Cs Monitor
0.0
Its New Years Eve in the drabbest looking Big Apple ever, populated by the least witty and insightful human beings ever.
New York Post
1.5
It is to Swanks inestimable credit that she delivers the films big finale set piece Capra corn plea for universal peace and love with something approa ..
Film Journal International ..
2.0
It is the cinematic equivalent of a greeting card: Both the sentiment and the laughs are plentiful, cheap and forgettable.
Az Central
1.9
Editor Michael Tronick deserves credit for stitching all of these corny story lines together smoothly.
Boston
1.0
But the individual pieces have to be made with at least a little love.
Npr
0.6
The movie plays like a time warp to 1951. The opening shot of the movie is a horse and buggy. Jon Bon Jovi plays pop musics hottest superstar. You hal ..
Star Tribune
1.5
Why he doesnt just get a taxi to the train into Manhattan remains unanswered.
3.0
Fugates screenplay delivers a couple of decent twists in the final act.
Emanuellevy
1.0
For me, New Years Eve will be forever associated with the neighbourhood parties of my childhood, with middle aged women smelling of gin planting slopp ..
Guardian
1.0
Structured weirdly like an old fashioned disaster movie, this also features an all star cast phoning in dead eyed performances as their characters dis ..
Guardian
1.0
Every scene is lame, every line banal, every performance shallow and the product placement for Warner Brothers films is both shameless and shameful.
Daily Mail
1.5
Sentiment covers every moment like mildew, without ever once actually engaging the emotions, as the action plays out like a sort of Stepford Wives ver ..
Eye For Film
2.5
Trouble is, the humour is overworked; the characters are plastic; the situations unbelievable and some of the resolutions disappointing with some char ..
2.5
Developing this flourishing franchise with screenwriter Katherine Fulgate, director Garry Marshall cheerfully declares, I can do any holiday.
Susang Ranger
0.5
This is a movie where Zac Efron teaches Michelle Pfeiffer to say yes to life. This is a movie where Zac Efron is a real chill bro who can inspire peop ..
Movies
0.5
Safe to say that if you enjoy Marshalls standard lukewarm jokes and halfhearted heartfelt speeches, youll enjoy this film.
Movies
2.5
Each beat and every clunky reaction shot encourages the actors to push it, like Jessica Biel in the birthing plotline.Marshall knows a certain kind of ..
Chicago Tribune
2.0
If you are surprised by anything in this movie, you need to see more movies.
Bullz-Eye
1.5
It fails to rise to even that level of incompetence, and its happy with its stupidity.
Flickfilosopher
2.0
Each one barely has any time to develop, and the movie is overstuffed with half formed ideas that go nowhere.
Las Vegas Weekly
2.0
Another lavish helping of clichs, cameos and implausibly interweaving love stories. Fine if youre a fan of Valentines Day, but Marshalls multi star ch ..
Total Film
3.5
...while generally uninvolving, its a nice, moral, family oriented film, better than sitting through many of the others that are out there right now.
Tony Medley
2.5
The humor is camp enough that it can almost survive that sort of thing, but whenever New Years Eve attempts to shift gears into drama it ends up with ..
1.9
In terms of sophistication, its the movie equivalent of eight romance novels.
Groucho Reviews
2.5
It just kind of sits there, holding your attention without ever really sucking you in the way a good movie will.
Aisle Seat
1.3
Berry actually manages a few real moments in the midst of all this nonsense.
Nj
2.0
So make your plans now so that youre somewhere anywhere rather than stuck watching this clumsy and not all that terribly funny alleged comedy.
Maki At The Movies
1.0
The characters presented are so many in number that in the end you dont feel like youve really gotten to know or empathize with any of them.
Cine Vue
1.0
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Mirror
2.0
Marshall sticks to his rose colored principles: You gotta have hope, listen to your heart and take leaps of faith. Plus a new one: Sarah Jessica Parke ..
Tamp A Bay
2.0
Its hard to stand out in such a crowd and its a mixed bag of performances.
Nz Herald
1.9
The film is intended to be a romantic comedy. But its flat direction, stock punch lines, insipid musical numbers and suffocating swarm of characters m ..
Kansas City
1.0
A joyless, overstuffed confection that seems designed more to maximise product placement.
Flicks
0.6
In a film whose idea of timely humor means referencing Girls Gone Wild and Guantanamo Bay and whose storytelling approach boils down to, Why tackle on ..
Red Eye Chicago
1.3
The sanitized setting and sappy script are so littered with cardboard characters and crass product placements that youll mourn for the muggers and por ..
Stl Today
1.0
Every gag implodes mirthlessly.Its rare that a movie is so consistently flat.
Hollywood And Fine
2.0
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The Sun
1.0
Proves, in its tiny way, that no matter how bad the modern romantic comedy has already become, theres still plenty of room for it to get worse.
Antagony & Ecstasy
0.4
Rivals Gigli as one of the most cringe inducing, asinine and silly romcoms in quite some time. Save yourself the torture and just rent Love Actually i ..
Nyc Movie Guru
1.9
Make it your New Years resolution to see something other than New Years Eve.
Js Online
1.0
Even the typical tropes of the genre cant be successfully accomplished in that the bare minimum of romantic energy isnt even achieved in half of its d ..
Hollywood Chicago
1.5
Even as a straight drama, though, it just cant muster the emotional togetherness or genuine sensibility to engage or engross; it is the most crass of ..
What Culture
2.5
New Years Eve is like a live action postcard or advertisement for New York City.
Post Gazette
1.0
No one comes out of it smelling very good.But who could, given this script
Dvd Talk
2.0
The stories are cheesy, all the stars overact and the direction (from Garry Marshall, maker of previous date movie, Valentines Day) is disgracefully s ..
What So
1.0
Among the years worst films. The tragedy is funny, the comedy is tragic, and about its only saving grace is that it makes 2010s Valentines Day look al ..
Film 4
1.5
The latest from director Garry Marshall is a completely uninteresting excursion that features a parade of familiar faces given absolutely nothing to d ..
Bowling Green Daily News
2.5
Though the screenplay is inane, New Years Eve coasts on the easy charm of its stars... Theres an inherent pleasure in seeing Saturday Night Lives Meye ..
Streaming Quickflix
1.9
I wont reveal the identity of Duhamels mystery date, but lets just say I was disappointed it wasnt Elizondos character that at least would get a rise ..
Clclt
1.0
Its all edited with a Cuisinart, such that when a character you last saw 20 minutes ago (the movies an excruciating two hours) pops up again, you have ..
Jam! Movies
1.5
New Years Eve feels like a film made by an entire cast and crew that has never actually celebrated New Years Eve.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.0
The film is filled with one liners which are frequently funny only because of their sheer cheesiness.
Rediff
2.0
There are entertaining moments to be found Pfeiffer and Efron make an amusing double act in their sweet and touching story but they are scattered acro ..
The National
1.0
Valentines Day was nonsense but quite fun, this is just berating.
Fan The Fire Magazine
1.5
Except the slapdash New Years Eve is neither nicely written, nor nicely acted nor nicely made.
Entertainment Time
0.6
Garry Marshall, how could you You have made a mockery of a movie that bears the name of my birthday. I take this as a personal affront.
Qc Times
0.6
Lately Garry Marshall has shown a certain genius for turning miserable holidays into terrible movies.
Boston Phoenix
3.0
Written on the level of a bad episode of The Love Boat, this is one of those concoctions that intertwines about 10 storylines and then concludes with ..
Detroit News
2.5
Still, the latest in what is turning out to be a series of secondary holiday themed movies can Bastille Day be far behind New Years Eve is not unbeara ..
Miami
2.0
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Richard Roeper
2.0
An even lazier, even dumber re hash of Valentines Day a movie that was already very lazy and dumb to begin with.
Film.com
2.0
Watching Robert De Niro put yet another nail in the coffin of his career is bad enough, but et tu Michelle Pfeiffer
Metro Times
2.0
Nothing wrong with an unashamedly sentimental holiday flick, but theres no excuse for these nails on a chalkboard characters and manipulative heartstr ..
Little White Lies
3.1
It may be cornball in spots and pedestrian in others, but it is pure cinematic comfort food that works wonders for the last day of the year.
The Film File
3.0
Like The Love Boat, this is stories about love featuring a lot of big stars and with depth that can only be measured with micrometers and Sofia Vergar ..
Movie Mom
2.0
It uses its titular holiday as a ruthless star delivery system in which a menagerie of assembled celebs sprints through a collection of interconnected ..
Movie Line
2.0
This sounds like a fun idea on paper, but multi starrers can also be made with subtlety and style.
Mid Day
1.0
Director Garry Marshalls romantic comedy is an onslaught of schmaltz, passing off greeting card platitudes as dialogue and repeatedly reminds us the e ..
Liver Pool Echo
1.0
No shot in the film look dull or not engaging.The performances are universally solid, and Spielberg wisely uses an all European cast.
Kc Active
1.5
New Years is the time we all celebrate that weve lived long enough to know better.
4.0
New Years Eve is like Woody Allen lite for the masses ( ... ) by never threatening to copy the smut of 50/50 or Bridesmaids, its a memory stirring, wa ..
Birmingham Mail
2.0
Your appreciation for the film may depend on your tolerance for sugar.
Movie Metropolis
2.0
The film famously took ensemble comedy to unimaginable new lows with a compendium of stock characters so utterly devoid of personality that to label t ..
Ultra Culture
3.0
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Jo Reviews
0.5
Offering up genuinely unlikable characters and terrible dialogue, this comedy qualifies as one of the years worst.
Big Hollywood
0.6
The band abandoned Bon Jovi and let him make this movie on his own, showing Richie Sambora has higher standards than Robert DeNiro.
1.0
New Years Eve is appalling stuff, a poorly constructed, sentimental sham.
Time Of India
3.0
Those who pay for this film should add dont get suckered into seeing bad movies to their list of New Years resolutions.
Movies About
2.5
Much of it is dreck but the stories that work are charming and in a few select cases, provide a sudden emotional wallop.
Atlantic City Weekly
0.5
Its not fun, its not funny, its not realistic. Its beyond boring.
Ny 1
2.0
New Years Eve actually has more in common with the day that proceeds the alcohol soaked holiday ... its the kind of experience that will leave you nau ..
Wd Times
3.0
The worst sin of New Years Eve is the insulating presentation of New Years Eve in the Big Apple. Hopefully, no one thinks New Years Eve in New York Ci ..
BET.com
1.9
We hope that somewhere amid the streamers and popping champagne corks director Marshall is making a resolution to stop making these movies.
Toronto Star
1.0
You have to worry when a films musical medley finale is far more entertaining than what youve just sat through.
Real.com
2.5
Like the stroke of midnight, New Years Eve disappears almost instantly, leaving little behind but limp streamers and the sense that, surely, there was ..
Seattle Times
3.0
When a cameo by Matthew Broderick is just a set up to name his character Buellerton its time to ring in the New Year and call it a night.
0.0
NYE, the #1 reason I hate you is because Im going to look like a total a**hole when I have to admit to my mother that yes, I saw you, and I thought yo ..
After Elton
0.5
To keep it short and sweet: the movie is messier than Times Square at 3 a.m. on January 1st.
Dig Boston
3.0
Quick somebody help me stage an intervention for director Garry Marshall.
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