Friends With Benefits (2011)

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Anyone who has ever seen a romantic comedy before knows where this one is going.

October 7, 2011 Full Review

Leah Rozen

The Wrap

Top Critic

The chemistry between Kunis and her co-star Justin Timberlake is electric.

September 7, 2011 Full Review

Cath Clarke

Time Out

Top Critic

It's one of those rare made-in-Hollywood couplings that transcends the ordinary stuff of movies, like plot and sense and credibility.

August 2, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Greg Quill

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Fast-paced and fabulously fake, Friends With Benefits is the Red Bull of romantic comedies, unapologetically delivering a hyperactive, synthetic buzz.

August 2, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Logan Hill

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Kunis and Timberlake achieve the trickier feat of looking just as happy hanging out as they do sucking face, and when the clichés inevitably come rolling in, they feel earned rather than like a cop-out.

August 2, 2011 Full Review

Alison Willmore

Time Out New York

Top Critic

Friends with Benefits is fast, allusive, urban, glamorous -- clearly the Zeitgeist winner of the summer.

July 25, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

It doesn't help, either, that both Timberlake and Kunis are charming yet utterly bland in their respective roles...

February 5, 2013 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Yeah, we all know the formula. But when it works and the chemistry is just right, we love seeing exactly what we expect and hope for.

January 14, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Kunis and Timberlake are pitch perfect in Friends With Benefits, a predictable, yet extremely accessible tale of love, sex and complications.

September 22, 2012 Full Review

Benjo Colautti

We Got This Covered

This is just another forgettable by-the-numbers romantic-comedy that ends up going nowhere unexpected.

September 19, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Timberlake and Kunis are fearless, funny, and just incredibly likable.

February 1, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

The inherent likability of the two leads alone elevates this above the average comedy. Their willingness-especially Timberlake's-to appear foolish doesn't hurt either.

December 28, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

If it displayed more courage, this could have been a fascinating modern American movie. Instead it's a smart but still rather ordinary comedy that is entertaining but not ground-breaking.

December 13, 2011 Full Review

Laurence Boyce

The Baltic Times

If you've ever wondered why romantic comedy is in such a sorry state, watch these two appealing actors go through every false note in the book in a movie so disingenuous that the neither premise, the climax, nor the resolution ever feels remotely real.

December 9, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

full review at Movies for the Masses

September 29, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

Friends with Benefits may not want to admit it, but making a successful rom-com would seem to be harder than it looks.

September 19, 2011 Full Review

Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

Sadly, the gags and the spicy dialogue aren't funny enough to make this work and it's only when Timberlake and Kunis start letting their characters' respective guards down that the film becomes more involving.

September 14, 2011 Full Review

Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

It's smart, sexy and moderately amusing.

September 11, 2011 Full Review

Philip French

Observer [UK]

Gluck has given us a story with a really smart and sassy burst of contemporary relationship strife that stealthily draws you into the Timberland-Kunis magnetism.

September 10, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Lisa Giles-Keddie

Real.com

Good clean fun.

September 9, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Alex Zane

Sun Online

At the start, the film is clever enough to send up the whole rom-com formula with Dylan and Jamie neatly mocking the genre's conventions as they watch a video of Sleepless In Seattle.

September 9, 2011 Full Review

David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

Friends With Benefits almost gets away with the double standards because Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are such an attractive pairing.

September 9, 2011 Full Review

Catherine Jones

Liverpool Echo

• 1. Dylan: [lying under Jamie, totally naked] Do you like this position?
  2. Jamie: [up in Dylan's body, naked] Yeah it's all right.
  3. Dylan: Honestly I feel emasculated.
  – Submitted by Nguyen L (6 months ago)
• 1. Tommy: Tommy: But the offers keep rolling in, naturally. Look at me! And hey, I love women. They're beautiful, majestic, mysterious, mesmerizing creatures. Smart, empathetic, far superior to men in every way. And if I had a choice, I would be with women to my dying day. But me likes cock, so I'm strickily-dickily.
  – Submitted by joey v (11 months ago)
• 1. Dylan: You can't deny that going to Hogwarts wouldn't be life changing.
  – Submitted by Amir V (13 months ago)
• 1. Jamie: You really going to talk to her around all these people.
  2. Dylan: I'm just going to talk to her. I'm not gonna rape her.
  – Submitted by Aaron E (14 months ago)
• 1. Tommy: A work ethic. I love it! That is why this country is still number one. Well, behind Germany and France and Belgium and Japan and China. Thank God for Bangladesh!
  – Submitted by xniquet L (17 months ago)
• 1. Dylan: Why do women think the only way to get men to do what they want is to manipulate them?
  2. Jamie: History, personal experience, romantic comedies.
  – Submitted by Kerwin M (17 months ago)

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