The Next Best Thing Critic Reviews

Essentially an old-fashioned weepie gussied up for Y2K.Read the full review

Funny how Madonna borrows Everett, Julia Roberts' gay pal from "My Best Friend's Wedding," and Bratt, Roberts' real-life beau, to be her co-stars. If only she could borrow her talent.Read the full review

(Madonna is) clearly full of good intentions; too bad she's lacking discernible emotions.Read the full review

Never having decided whether it wants to be comedy or a sentimental hand-wringer, it tries to be both and winds up being neither.Read the full review

Likely lack of much critical enthusiasm or positive word-of-mouth will induce quick theatrical falloff, with better news likely down the line for rental merchants.Read the full review

Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.Read the full review

A garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman's horse.Read the full review

That's a few too many agendas for one film.Read the full review

A misguided romantic serio-comedy aimed at women and gay men that ends up caricaturing both.Read the full review