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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceIf I Were You is a screwball comedy for Canadians—not LOL funny, but as crazy as you might expect Toronto to get.
- 50Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerA wannabe French-style infidelity farce that keeps indulging in unnecessary bathos and subplots.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickIf I Were You has more than its share of laughs, but director Joan Carr-Wiggin needed to cut half an hour to make this fly without interest flagging. She had the exact same problem with her last movie, “A Previous Engagement.’’
- 40Time OutTime OutIt’s a complex geometry that’s mined for some interesting perspectives on romantic fulfillment, but the film’s comic sense (exemplified by a drunken Harden acting inappropriately) is slack and its dramatic conclusion unfulfilling.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA modern cinematic equivalent of the sort of tired sex farces that used to populate Broadway with regularity, If I Were You simultaneously exploits and squanders the talents of its star, Marcia Gay Harden.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierHardworking Oscar winner Harden and beguiling Spanish star Watling do nothing for this haphazard film, which belatedly decides it wants to be a stage satire as the women lark into a ridiculous avant-garde production of “MacBeth.” Bloody awful.
- 20The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA comedy that is so scatterbrained and long-winded that much of it feels invented on the spot. (It’s also a half-hour too long.)
- 20Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThis is Nancy Meyers territory, but leaden with passé observations about lovelorn women...and hardly ebullient as either oddball-pair comedy or housewife-revenge fantasy.