A sporadically funny romantic comedy with all the dramatic plausibility and tonal consistency of a TV variety show.
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07/02/08
As Good as It Gets (1997)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: James L. Brooks and Jack Nicholson, doing what they do best, combine smart dialogue and flawless acting to squeeze fresh entertainment value out of the romantic-comedy genre.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Acerbic and outwardly despicable pulp novelist Melvin Udall lives in a haze of obsessive-compulsive behavior patterns, avoiding cracks in the sidewalk and rigidly adhering to his regimen of daily... [More]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding
Director: James L. Brooks
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Reviews for As Good as It Gets
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Top CriticRomance comedies definitely come better than this, although perhaps not lately.
04/12/02
Top CriticIt's a mark of how magically written, directed and acted As Good as It Gets is that we end up loving this film despite knowing how haphazard, scattershot and almost indefinable its charm is.
02/14/01
Top CriticIt's fun to watch Jack Nicholson draw on great reservoirs of bile to play a mean SOB with an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
02/14/01
Top CriticAn almost-convincing imaginary universe.
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Top CriticOne of the year's best.
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Top CriticBy the time we leave the theater, the warmth of love has melted the coldest heart.
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Top CriticWicked, but it works.
01/01/00
Top CriticI'd go to As Good as It Gets and not worry too much about its structural ungainliness.
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Top CriticThe film is hugely entertaining.
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Top CriticHow [Brooks] emerged an abler artist is worth puzzling over; I suspect it has something to do with sheer instinct triumphing over industry machinery.
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Top Critic
The movie succeeds at many moments even while pursuing its doomed grand design.
01/01/00
Top CriticPart of the appeal of this comedy is that Melvin's transformation never gets sappy.
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Top CriticNicholson struggles for the core of the man but never gets it; so, in most scenes, he resorts to working his face, with grimaces and sneering smiles and lip-pursings in place of acting.
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Top CriticUrbane, alert, funny, compassionate.
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