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Avg. Critic Score: 44 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Terrifically funny romantic comedy, is a slam-dunk for Julia Roberts, the Michael Jordan of cuteness. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

    This movie is a cookie. A slightly stale generic-brand cookie. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    As enjoyable as this film is in parts, it's not nearly as successful as a whole. Enormously engaging in its opening segments, it's unable to sustain that good feeling over the long haul. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    America's Sweethearts recycles "Singin' in the Rain" but lacks the sassy genius of that 1952 musical, which is still the best comedy ever made about Hollywood. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    No excuse for the bitterness and crudity in America's Sweethearts -- a noxious combination that erodes the 1930s and '40s screwball-comedy armature on which this mirthless movie is based. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Like a bottle of lukewarm Champagne -- an expensive one, judging by the label -- America's Sweethearts opens with a promising burst of effervescence and quickly goes flat. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Begins as a smartly promising, gently farcical comedy of manners and ends as sourly and haphazardly as the lives it is poking fun at. Read full review

  • 30
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Chockablock with things we're not supposed to notice: that Roberts is wasted; that she and Cusack have no characters to play, so it's virtually impossible to understand why she loves him or vice versa; that the script provides comedy without bite and romance without resonance. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    The sparks don't fly -- they fall down and they can't get up. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    This is the downside of Roberts' giant success and her dazzling ability to charm: Every time she goes plain, as she did in the little-seen "Mary Reilly" and "Michael Collins," our princess simply fizzles. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ So-so sitcom-like story of estranged movie stars.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie is raunchier than many PG-13s, with strong language and sexual references and situations, and some comic violence. Characters drink and use (and possibly abuse) prescription drugs. A mental breakdown is treated as a comic development, mere self-indulgence rather than a legitimate illness.
  • Families can talk about how the movie presents movie star life. Do you think this is an accurate depiction of how celebrities live? What do you think are the good and bad parts of being famous?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: None
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: None
  • sex false3 Sex: Some sexual references, references to adultery, masturbation
  • language false3 Language: Mild profanity, strong sexual references
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking
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