American Dreamz Critic Reviews

A blithe, funny, and engaging movie.Read the full review

American Dreamz pitches its softballs with style. Martin Tweed, the preeningly heartless British host of the title TV show, just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant.Read the full review

The movie is more slapdash than smooth, more impulsive than calculating, and it takes cheap shots. I responded to its savage, sloppy zeal.Read the full review

Not as incisive a political commentary as "Thank You For Smoking," American Dreamz lampoons the public's appetite for mindless entertainment and easy distraction from serious concerns.Read the full review

The rare case of a movie that gets better as it goes along.Read the full review

Grant's second coming as a rake and an egotist is the best thing to happen to his career since "Four Weddings and a Funeral." He is twice as enjoyable as the preening bad guy as he was as the bumbling good guy, and Weitz makes perfect use of the new persona.Read the full review

Weitz has a winning way with a one-liner, and he's recruited a stellar cast that gets the most out of his material.Read the full review

This movie seems better suited as cable or video fare than for theatrical viewing.Read the full review

A film with none of the heart that has characterized Weitz's best work and none of the freshness of his most successful.Read the full review