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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe mixture of sincerity and sitcom phoniness is bewildering at times, but on some level, I guess, the film works.
- 70TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineYou come away with a remarkable sense of the filmmakers and actors working together harmoniously as they delve into the heart of relationships between friends and lovers.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyTries to mix the messy realities of mismatched relationships with the structural neatness of a musical-comedy view of the world, with mild, occasionally diverting results.
- 67Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIt boasts appealing performances, and it takes a reasonably tasteful approach to its subject, aside from a string of four-letter words that sound strangely out of place in this romantic comedy.
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinEasier to watch than it is to believe.
- 60NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenIn trying to appeal to a wide audience, quirky material has been forced to fit a formula that can't really contain it.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanSo riddled with cultural stereotypes, woe-is-me neurotic mopiness, and glib therapeutic compassion that by the end all it leaves you with is a waxy buildup of falseness.
- The film is being marketed as a romantic comedy, but it's neither romantic nor funny.
- 30SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinThe film that Nicholas Hytner has directed (from a screenplay by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein) is slick, sweet, and disastrously unmoving -- even people who live to cry at the movies will find themselves depressingly dry-eyed.
- 30New York Magazine (Vulture)New York Magazine (Vulture)If the woman’s love is obsessive and needy, the story becomes stupid and painful, and that is what happens in The Object of My Affection, the Stephen McCauley novel that has been adapted for the movies with disastrous panache by playwright Wendy Wasserstein and director Nicholas Hytner.