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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorWriter-director Mark Brown ruptures and restores the realism in this romantic comedy with ease, dispensing earnest wisdom with a little tongue in cheek instead of undermining it with a lot of irony.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannThe best scenes are the ones that Fox shares with Tamala Jones, Wendy Raquel Robinson and the full-figured Monique as her sassy girlfriends. There's a ripe, crackling spontaneity when these women get together.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigWomen may appear a bit smarter here, but both sexes are portrayed as superficial and silly.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAlong comes Two Can Play That Game to demonstrate that antifeminist silliness is color-blind.
- 40SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekUltimately feels somewhat overprocessed, and its humor is a little too broad at times -- it probably crosses the acceptable threshold of penis and boob jokes.
- 38New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAside from the shamelessly promoted corporate sponsors, nobody emerges from this game a winner. But the biggest losers are the ones who paid good money to watch it.
- 30L.A. WeeklyMark OlsenL.A. WeeklyMark OlsenUltimately neither freewheeling enough to work as a diverting entertainment nor barbed enough to strike home as any sort of social commentary.
- 30Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonDoesn't anyone get sick of this same old routine?
- 10VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerFew recent movies have conceived their central female character more contemptuously -- a fanatic for a lifestyle that appears to have come from the bestselling "The Rules."
- 10Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombIt's the summer's most disingenuous movie -- a real achievement in a waning season that included Tim Burton's "Banana Splits" remake.