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Metascore®29 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

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

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A gentle, traditional (like, from the last century) romantic comedy. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    New in Town is "The Pajama Game" without the songs, the laughs or the bare-knuckled realism. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan Rabin

    New In Town grinds its plucky protagonist through a predictable arc from dispassionate big-city ice queen to redeemed small-town tenderheart. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Do you like this sort of rom-com? It's a fair example of its type, not good, but competent. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Brian Miller

    The movie wrong-foots Zellweger from the start. She's not enough the ice queen, like Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl," for us to accept her transition into adorable Melanie Griffith. Read full review

  • 38
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The movie has little to recommend it and more than a few things to encourage those who pursue quality cinema to stay away. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    It doesn't help that Zellweger, in an unfortunate attempt to make the aud appreciate her character's uptightness, spends many of the early scenes moving about as stiff as a flagpole in January. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    The new comedy is flat, the romance is listless, the pacing is sluggish, and the fish-out-of-water flops -- flip-flop, flip-flop, I can hear it still. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Watching Ms. Zellweger’s joyless performance, you have to wonder what happened to this formerly charming actress who not so long ago seemed on the verge of becoming a softer, more vulnerable Shirley MacLaine. Read full review

  • 25
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    To say that New in Town is the worst movie of this fledgling year is to damn it with faint praise. It may be one of the worst movies of any year. Not content to be merely inane and predictable, it is downright insulting, humorlessly deriding those who choose to live in rural America, labor in factories or have a strong Christian faith. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.6 out of 5

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