Trust the Man Critic Reviews
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A smart, sharply observed, highly affable look at contemporary relationships that finally injects a little life in the stagnating genre.Read the full review
Its strength is its humor, which is half-"Seinfeld" and half-"Sex in the City." There's a reason why those shows ran for only 30 minutes each - it's difficult to sustain comedic momentum for longer, as becomes apparent here.Read the full review
Superficially entertaining romantic romp.Read the full review
Trust the Man quickly begins to feel hopelessly derivative of other, better movies.Read the full review
Trust-- and the genre itself -- needs to dump the stale formula and embrace reality and reinvention.Read the full review
For those who appreciate the Woody Allen view of New York but would prefer fewer neurotics, Trust the Man provides a loving take on bourgeois Manhattan contentment that's usually only found in episodes of "Will & Grace."Read the full review
The actors gamely keep up their spirits, but the male characters are too one-dimensional and the female characters too bizarrely divorced from reality to be at all engaging.Read the full review
Trust The Man presents itself as a funny, insightful Manhattan relationship comedy in Woody Allen mode, but morphs into the phoniest of Hollywood rom-coms.Read the full review
Can these banal relationships between undifferentiated lovelies be saved?Read the full review
Does not bring a single fresh, inventive idea to the table.Read the full review