Finding Amanda Critic Reviews

Finding Amanda, unfortunately, is one vast, irritating surface.Read the full review

Broderick is splendid as the gambler. He knows, as many addicts do, that the addictive personality is very inward, however much acting out might take place.Read the full review

The problem comes largely in the conception of the hooker-niece character, Amanda, played by Brittany Snow. Tolan never quite figures out whether she is supposed to be a variation on the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold or a genuinely troubled teen.Read the full review

Finding Amanda is a minor movie for Broderick, but considering where it takes him, it's understandable why he took the role.Read the full review

Even the easygoing Broderick can't inject any lift or charm into the story.Read the full review

If the title "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" didn’' already belong to Hunter S. Thompson, it would perfectly fit Peter Tolan's viciously funny satire, Finding Amanda.Read the full review

It's amusing but facile, reasonably clever but hopelessly glib.Read the full review

Broderick has the film's most clever lines, but Snow is quite funny and is convincing as an innocent lured by the promise of easy money.Read the full review

Although it avoids overt moralizing or clunky lesson-learning, pic's careful balancing act between tragedy and comedy eventually becomes its sole raison d'etre.Read the full review