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All About Steve (2009)

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Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 119

All About Steve is an oddly creepy, sour film, featuring a heroine so desperate and peculiar that audiences may be more likely to pity than root for her.

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Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 26

All About Steve is an oddly creepy, sour film, featuring a heroine so desperate and peculiar that audiences may be more likely to pity than root for her.

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Movie Info

A brilliant crossword-puzzle designer travels across the country in hopes of convincing a CCN cameraman that the pair is meant to be together, only to find her quest taking an unexpected turn in this romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, andThomas Haden Church. Despite the fact that she has only gone on one short date with the man, a love-struck puzzle creator becomes enamored with a successful cameraman and follows him to a series of media events in hopes that the feeling is

PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min.

Comedy

Kim Barker

Dec 22, 2009

$33.8M

20th Century Fox

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Critic Reviews for All About Steve

All Critics (128) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (119) | DVD (2)

Packaged as a romantic comedy but devoid of comedy or romance, this baffling train wreck stars Sandra Bullock as a tediously kooky constructor of crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper.

September 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (3)
Cliff Doerksen
Chicago Reader
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It's dreadful.

September 8, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
A.O. Scott
At the Movies
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Oops, sorry, we're not supposed to think of Mary as mentally ill, psychologically unbalanced, or any of those painful things, just full of gumption and sunny determination.

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comments (3)
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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There's no footing in reality. Nothing about it feels authentic.

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle
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A screwball comedy missing more than a few crucial screws.

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (2)
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Despite her downward-tilted head and her nattering ways, Mary really does want to connect. Watching her realize this isn't deep but it is sweet.

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comments (6)
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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All About Steve is survivable. You'll never see such passion for a crossword anywhere else.

October 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Moviedex | Comment
Katina Vangopoulos
Moviedex

The film's complete failure to engage on any level, much less comedic, lies entirely at the feet of Bullock.

August 9, 2010 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | Comment
Simon Foster
sbs.com.au

A disappointingly disposable romantic comedy...

April 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

All About Steve is constructed as a romantic comedy, but Mary's tireless, stalker-like behavior suggests that this ought to be a horror film.

January 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | Comment
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

It's baffling that some of our favourite actors would sign up for this slightly creepy, desperately unfunny twaddle. Don't encourage them by watching it.

January 22, 2010 Comment
Rosamund Witcher
Heat Magazine

This deeply unfunny comedy misfires at every turn.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Mary is a memorable comic creation for all the wrong reasons: glibly written, offensively characterised and bizarrely dressed, she's the classic screwball ditz taken to grotesque and at times unwatchable extremes.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Tom Huddlestone
Time Out Source: Time Out

One of the ropiest would-be screwball comedies conceived recently.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Ben Machell
Times [UK]

A film that looks as if it's been through 1,001 test screenings, script drafts and reshoots, each unfunnier and more muddled than the last.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

Whatever disturbed and previously untapped audience this is meant to find, it's certainly novel.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Comment
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

Director Phil Traill and screenwriter Kim Barker should take some credit for attempting something original, but ultimately what they come up with is an ensemble cast of non-entities and the overriding feeling that they're exploiting the lead character.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Comment
Simon Reynolds
Digital Spy

A handful of wry TV news graphics provide welcome amusement, but Bullock has never been worse and the rest of the cast are left to solve the puzzle of their own presence.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies

Romcom? Send-up? Romcom send-up? No one seems to know, least of all director Phil Traill, whose failure to deliver a consistent tone - or, y'know, any laughs - leaves his capable cast hung out to dry.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Rob James
Total Film

The film is such a misjudged farrago that it makes Miss Congeniality seem like a masterpiece.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Sandra Bullock turns in an excruciatingly kooky performance in this ill-conceived stalker romance.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Radio Times | Comment
Karen Krizanovich
Radio Times

This weirdly unfunny comedy is like Clint Eastwood's Play Misty For Me seen through the eyes of the stalker, and played unsuccessfully for laughs.

January 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | Comment
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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Okay, I am not going to say this was a good movie, but I still don't get the hate on it. I actually kind of liked Sandra's weird girl character here. It gets dull in the middle, and it's not the happy ending you go into a rom com expecting, but it had a message of self acceptance to it that I really liked. There is

April 18, 2009
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Nicki Marie

Super Reviewer

Loved it! Don't understand why Sandra Bullock got a Razzie for this? Amazing film and so funny. She plays a bunny boiler extremely well and yet funny too. It's such a hard thing to do and she does it perfectly. Sends out a postive message and the end is magnificent. A must see! Ignore the bad reviews. A great film!

June 23, 2011
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Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

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    1. Mary Horowitz: If you love someone set them free . If you have to stalk them. They probably weren't yours in the first place.
    – Submitted by Pamela B (4 months ago)

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