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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Joe Somebody sends audiences home happy but also with an awareness that happy endings have to be earned in real life as on the screen. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    The cop-out is mitigated by Allen's ability to impart a comfortable, lived-in quality to his roles, this one included. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    A lot of this goes down surprisingly well, even if Panettiere, through no fault of her own, is saddled with phony precocious dialogue that makes her sound like an ancient sage. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It's not great; it's also not idiotic. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Scott Foundas

    Pretty formulaic stuff: bland self-empowerment tinged with warm fuzzies in all the right places. But what makes this "Somebody" something is Pasquin's deft touch and understanding with the material. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    It turns out that Joe ends up liking the old Joe better too. Who just so happens to be the kind of average-Joe character that continues to make Allen such a tidy, non-Joe bundle. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    An odd picture, a rumination on depression and self-discovery that's couched as an office comedy. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Continually squanders its opportunities for hilarity. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    An unimaginative schoolyard-bully comedy. Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's a simple, wholesome parable, crashingly obvious, and we sit patiently while the characters and the screenplay slowly arrive at the inevitable conclusion. It needs to take some chances and surprise us. Read full review

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