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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerLove & Other Drugs is a slick weepie made by smart guys who want you to know they're better than the schlockmeisters. They've outsmarted themselves.
- 63Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrIf product proves especially difficult to swallow, take with a grain of salt and three or more alcoholic drinks, or wait until such time as active ingredients Hathaway and Gyllenhaal have been more effectively utilized elsewhere.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe director is Edward Zwick, a considerable filmmaker. He obtains a warm, lovable performance from Anne Hathaway and dimensions from Gyllenhaal that grow from comedy to the serious.
- 60Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzZwick can't seem to decide what the movie is - a refreshingly frank comedy about sex and commitment, or a more-serious look at illness and its effect on relationships.
- 60EmpireOlly RichardsEmpireOlly RichardsWell above the standards of your average romantic comedy, it's funny, sexy and smart. It's just not smart enough to stick to its guns to the end.
- 50Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesI suppose when you make a movie, however tangentially, about Viagra, you're required to insert at least one scene of its side effects, but the broadness with which Zwick plays it out is like a stake to the heart of the film's hard-earned but fast-lost authenticity.
- 50Boxoffice MagazinePam GradyBoxoffice MagazinePam GradyThe movie never strikes a balance between its comic and dramatic halves and that dooms it. It is an almost good film that flounders, because there is no treatment for tone deafness.
- 50Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanGyllenhaal and Hathaway exert considerable powers of hangdog charm and fierce independence, trying to give firm shape to the saggy script. But if you want to watch these two struggle through an up-and-down screen relationship, rent "Brokeback Mountain."
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThey put the "obvious" in "obvious."
- 30Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesA watered-down satire of the pharmaceutical industry.