Thank You for Smoking Critic Reviews

Like its protagonist, the movie is smart, soulless, glib, and utterly charming -- just the thing to warm up a movie season that's been late to bloom.Read the full review

Here is a satire both savage and elegant, a dagger instead of a shotgun.Read the full review

Cynical and cheerily merciless.Read the full review

A very smart and funny movie directed by Jason Reitman, who also shrewdly adapted the screenplay from Christopher Buckley's savagely satiric novel.Read the full review

Despite its many strengths, Thank You for Smoking hovers around mediocrity, and its lasting impression is like a puff of smoke that is dissipated by a strong gust of wind.Read the full review

Both sides of the political fence will feel royally skewered. All that's lacking is a warning from the Surgeon General: This film will make you laugh till it hurts.Read the full review

A glib satire with a slick surface, lots of snappy patter and nothing to sell but its own cleverness.Read the full review

To work onscreen, Thank You for Smoking needed to be fast, scruffy, and offhand. But even the good lines here last a self-congratulatory beat too long. Aaron Eckhart is likable, but he's too hangdog and naturalistic for a part that could have used a brisk young Jack Lemmon type.Read the full review

The movie is amusing and clever but only skin deep. It lacks the acidity and rage of a satire such as "Network."Read the full review