How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Critic Reviews
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Possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17.Read the full review
A sharp-witted satire of celebrity journalism.Read the full review
Feels jumbled and disorganized. It's not altogether unpalatable, but that doesn't present it from being a mess.Read the full review
Best in show is the divine Gillian Anderson as a powerful celebrity publicist, editing the image of her clients in much the same way this adaptation tames Young's much pricklier book.Read the full review
Gets muddled in slapstick and crude humor.Read the full review
The putrid showbiz comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People appears to hit DEFCON 5 in mistaking its brand of moral laxity for cutesy irreverence.Read the full review
Simon Pegg is likably smart and obnoxious as the fish-out-of-water Brit in high-gloss Manhattan, but he's swimming upstream in a feature that substitutes slapstick for scathing wit.Read the full review
Nothing in How to Lose Friends feels fresh or on target.Read the full review
Cleverly titled but noxious British comedy.Read the full review
The movie based on Young's 2002 memoir is a good bit blunter. One early laugh comes at the expense of a pig urinating on a woman's feet at the BAFTA awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars. And it doesn't get much better, or much smarter, than that.Read the full review
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