The Ugly Truth Critic Reviews

Pleasingly glossy, refreshingly snarky and startlingly sexy.Read the full review

The only thing that differentiates it from far too many other uninspired rom-coms is that some of the material is funny and there is an occasional edge to the repartee. Beyond that, however, it's a cookie-cutter movie, and the cookies are pretty stale.Read the full review

The Ugly Truth is an arch, contrived, entirely predictable romantic comedy assembled with sufficient audience-friendly elements to put it over as both a good girls' night attraction and a date-night lure raunchy enough to leave couples in the right mood afterward.Read the full review

The Ugly Truth isn't fizzy and fun -- it's vacuously snappy.Read the full review

The comedy bogs down in relentless predictability and the puzzling overuse of naughty words.Read the full review

Funny though it is - is it could have been a whole lot funnier.Read the full review

The movie has embarrassingly limited ideas about both the sexes and sex. Like Sandra Bullock’s career woman in “The Proposal,’’ Abby appears to have never heard of intercourse, much less experienced it.Read the full review

A romantic comedy depends, of course, on the chemistry between the leads, and here the film is more successful. Both Heigl and Butler find the appeal in very flawed characters.Read the full review

Despite its appealing stars, The Ugly Truth is a charmless romantic comedy.Read the full review