How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Critic Reviews

Nothing in How to Lose Friends feels fresh or on target.Read the full review

Possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17.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

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

Feels jumbled and disorganized. It's not altogether unpalatable, but that doesn't present it from being a mess.Read the full review

A sharp-witted satire of celebrity journalism.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

The crushingly unfunny and slopped-together How to Lose Friends & Alienate People has neither the ambition nor the intelligence to do justice to its source material.Read the full review

People's title proves prophetic, only this time the people being alienated are the suckers in the paying audience.Read the full review