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87
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71
Critics' score based on 40 reviews.
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Something not seen in movie theaters for a long time: an intelligent, modern screwball comedy, a minor classic on the order of competent, fast-talking curve balls about deception and greed like Mitchell Leisen's "Easy Living" and Billy Wilder's "Major and the Minor."Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

Takes the traditional romantic comedy and tweaks it by way of "The War of the Roses." Rarely has strife between the sexes been so ruthless, so civilized, and so funny. Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances. Full Review

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

None of this would work, of course, without stylish performances in the leads and Mr. Clooney and Ms. Zeta-Jones do themselves and their dubious characters proud.Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

It's over-the-top. It's wild. It's filled with outrageous behavior all around.Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
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