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I Hate Valentine's Day (2009) Rank 5 Reviews
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The Hollywood Reporter
The strength of Vardalos' movies is that she loves all of her fellow actors and allows large ensembles to flourish. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
News Blaze
An alternately kooky and kinky comedy about the impossibility of establishing a science of romance, the movie is salvaged from small screen sitcomish attitude by the enormous warmth and vivacious personality of Vardolos, even when in pretend tyrant mode. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at News Blaze
NJ.com
Vardalos is a nice person and a hard worker, but there just aren't enough jokes here. And her pedestrian direction -- simply pointing the camera and shooting, then pasting the scenes together with pretty shots of the New York skyline -- doesn't help. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at NJ.com
rogerebert.com
"I Hate Valentine's Day" is a romantic comedy with one peculiarity: The heroine is stark, staring mad. I will tell you how I arrived at this diagnosis. Genevieve has an unbreakable policy regarding men: Five dates, and she's out the door. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at rogerebert.com
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The movie is set up as a valentine to Vardalos. She should try sending herself flowers. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Los Angeles Times
A refreshingly voluptuous, vulnerable and wise comic presence when she shot to fame in the semiautobiographical "Wedding," Vardalos stumbles making Genevieve such an off-putting presence for so long. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Los Angeles Times
USA TODAY
This is probably the year's worst romantic comedy - and that's saying something in a year that includes Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Whatever Works. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at USA TODAY
NYC Movie Guru
Here's some advice to Nia Vardalos if she wishes to write/direct another film: please edit the script to make it flow at least somewhat naturally a la When Harry Met Sally... ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at NYC Movie Guru
Village Voice
Vardalos calls her film "the ultimate indie experiment," and if that's what is meant by ham-fisted pacing, writing, and acting, this is as ultimate and as indie as it gets. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Village Voice
Brian Orndorf
By the time the end credits hit, there's joy emerging not from the outcome of the Genevieve/Greg romantic tango, but the feeling of relief to know the film, and Vardalos's insipid direction, has finally come to a close. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Brian Orndorf
The New York Times
Genevieve (Nia Vardalos) and Greg (John Corbett), the conflicted lovebirds in the bottom-drawer romantic comedy "I Hate Valentine's Day," may be in their 30s, but they play the game of romance with the finesse of sixth graders in the spin-the-bottle phase ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at The New York Times
New York Daily News
Vardalos' underdog start with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" (which also co-starred Corbett) was endearing enough to earn her some ongoing goodwill. But she's running out of chances, and fast. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at New York Daily News
Variety
A plodding mediocrity with an almost mercenary adherence to formula. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Variety
Time Out New York (Ben Kenigsberg)
Put it this way: Children who see this film at an impressionable age risk inhibiting their social growth. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Time Out New York (Ben Kenigsberg)
The Onion A.V. Club
Most women would be willing to sacrifice a limb or major organ for an opportunity to be with someone as improbably perfect as Corbett's character, but it takes Vardalos a damnably long time to figure out what audiences will understand immediately: that ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
Time Out New York
Put it this way: Children who see this film at an impressionable age risk inhibiting their social growth. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Time Out New York
Hollywood & Fine
Vardalos doesn't write dialogue; she writes shtick...the whole thing is one long riff, with few laughs and an inevitable destination. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Hollywood & Fine
One Guy's Opinion
"I Hate Valentine's Day" is technically mediocre, but that's really a step up from the wretchedness of its content. And so we end with the preordained redundancy: I hate "I Hate Valentine's Day. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at One Guy's Opinion
Metromix.com
Is it too pat to say I Hate This Movie? That's about the level of creative energy Vardalos applies to a film that manages to be every bit as bad as My Life in Ruins. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Metromix.com
The Onion- AV Club
If the comic strip character Cathy were to make a movie, this would be it. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at The Onion- AV Club
Salon.com
I Hate Valentine's Day is a horror show masquerading as a romantic comedy. Maybe Vardalos is just in the wrong line of work. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at Salon.com
New York Post
You've heard of direct-to-video-grade movies? This one should have gone straight to the shredder. ...read the complete I Hate Valentine's Day movie review at New York Post
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