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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliA deliciously nasty, dark comedy.
- 70L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorIt's a tribute to Robert Gordon's nifty screenplay and Dunne's cheerful way with digression that Addicted to Love, even as it broadens into screwball, also deepens into a character study full of surprising left turns.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovOne of the most inventive romantic comedies to come around in some while.
- 60EmpireAngie ErrigoEmpireAngie ErrigoRyan and Broderick, while individually first-rate, don't combine as sexily as they ought, making the inevitable outcome a little too pat in an otherwise genre-bucking affair.
- 60SalonSalonHas the same relationship to the dark emotions it glosses that Disneyland's Jungleboat Cruise ride has to an actual excursion down the Amazon.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumRyan's abrasive and rather creepy character is something of a departure for her.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is always a problem in a love story when the rival seems more interesting than the hero, and that's what happens here.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe story is as contrived as it is comical.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyBruce FrettsEntertainment WeeklyBruce FrettsCommits the cardinal sin of too many modern movies: It never gives the audience a clue why any of these people were ever attracted to one another in the first place. [30 May 1997, p. 54]
- 0The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenMs. Ryan's lean, eagle-eyed golden girl is enough to curdle milk.