Down with Love Critic Reviews

A very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle. Read the full review

May register most immediately as a snappy whirl of visual gags, double entendres, overheated romance, and comically oversized living quarters, but beneath the exuberance of this fond counterfeit is a heartbeat as powerful as that of any film anchored in the present. Read the full review

This is all far beyond silly, of course - the most inconsequential sort of winking, meta-movie in-joke.Read the full review

No better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but that is a compliment, I think.Read the full review

Could have used more of the shimmering elegance of the Day-Hudson comedies. Those movies had a true sparkle. This one's a likable piece of costume jewelry.Read the full review

Light, funny, and clever.Read the full review

Works hard to earn it and is, for the most part, intelligent and amusing, even if it never achieves the full-tilt zany desperation of Delbert Mann's "Lover Come Back," the best of the real Hudson-Day movies.Read the full review

Dragging on too long is a more serious flaw in a romantic comedy than it might be in a complex drama. We don't ask much of a movie like this, but we do require it to be snappy, clever and quick. Read the full review

It's like a "Saturday Night Live" sketch on a $60 million budget. Read the full review