Love and Other Drugs (2010)

All Critics (157) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (82) | DVD (8)

Eight months after health-care reform was signed into law, Universal Pictures courageously weighs in with a watered-down satire of the pharmaceutical industry.

January 4, 2011 Full Review

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Ultimately, the unsettled tone undermines the romantic conclusion. Still, you've got to admire the ambition it shares with its cocky hero.

December 27, 2010 Full Review

Anna Smith

Time Out

Top Critic

But in Love & Other Drugs, [Zwick] and Herskovitz find a groove that delivers wry writing and smart cultural observation.

December 17, 2010 Full Review

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

A slick weepie made by smart guys who want you to know they're better than the schlockmeisters.

December 3, 2010 Full Review

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

as many weak spots, but what it delivers at its core is as indelible as (and a lot more explicit than) the work of such legendary teams as Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

November 30, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

This movie is best treated like dim sum. Wait out the bad portions until a tastier dish is served. Let Hathaway be your guide.

November 24, 2010 Full Review

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Lacks a certain something, but not chemistry between Jake and Anne. They set off real sparks.

January 27, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

Movie Nation

Charismatic turns from its two stars provide the heartbeat for the movie, which resembles director Edward Zwick's TV show thirtysomething with its insight into male/female intimacy.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Simon Reynolds

Digital Spy

There were several potential avenues to develop here, but the film settles for something conventional and sentimental with its love story.

April 8, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Can he love her when her illness degenerates? Can she let him in even though she's scared? Will he always work for the people who are actually making her life more difficult? You're allowed not to care.

April 4, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dave White

Movies.com

The movie has lots of scenes of the two leads in bed together, but it can't decide whether it's a big issue film, a romantic comedy or a weepy melodrama, so it ends up being none of them successfully.

March 13, 2011 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

Sometimes touching, sometimes strained...Trying to tread the line carefully, things get shaky whenever (director) Zwick goes for drama rather than comedy.

March 10, 2011 Full Review

Fr. Chris Carpenter

Movie Dearest

Strange how for a movie about a Viagra salesman, we don't see the growth of the characters.

March 9, 2011 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

"Love & Other Drugs" may have one foot in comedy and the other in the sickness-of-the-week genre, but that's the way life plays out sometimes.

March 2, 2011 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

An overstated (dialogue-wise and visually-the movie's mostly close-ups) and underwhelming trip. And for a movie all about dickishness, its actual masking of Gyllenhaal's dick-twice with a cushion, as if out of a bad British sex farce-is limply dishonest.

January 27, 2011 Full Review

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

It isn't bashful at all, incorporating plenty of sex and humour; you'll feel like you're sleeping with them too.

January 11, 2011 Full Review

Rebecca Barry

Flicks.co.nz

For it's hard work, sadly the film's two heartfelt, emotional scenes are wholly undermined by some awful soundtracking.

January 11, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

I ended up wondering how a screenplay this messy had ever gone into production, let alone attracted two actors of this quality.

January 6, 2011 Full Review

Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

A mess, but one of those messes where it's at least fun to debate the different ways in which it got it so wrong and could have been great.

January 5, 2011 Full Review

Catherine Bray

Film4

Interesting ideas lurk, tantalisingly, underneath the romcom formula and yet every brave move Zwick and his co-writers make is countered by something weak and formulaic, as if in apology.

January 4, 2011 Full Review

Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

At least we now know why Anne Hathaway's co-presenting this year's Oscars. She's not gonna make it to that stage any other way.

January 4, 2011 Full Review

Robbie Collin

News of the World

• 1. Jamie: I'm full of shit, okay? No- I'm Knowingly full of shit because I have never cared about anybody or anything in my entire life and the thing is that everybody just kind of accepted that, like 'that's just Jamie'. And then you...Jesus! You. You...you didn't see me that way. I have never known anyone who'd actually believe that I was enough, until I met you... and then you made me believe it too, so unfortunately...I need you.
  – Submitted by Karen M (10 months ago)
• 1. Josh Randall: Wait, you're filming it? Do you do close-ups and stuff? Who holds it.
  – Submitted by Kris B (13 months ago)
• 1. Josh Randall: Did you get kidnapped by a care bear?
  – Submitted by Karen S (14 months ago)
• 1. Maggie Murdock: So many places to go?
  2. Jamie: You'll go there, I just may have to carry you.
  – Submitted by Han N (22 months ago)
• 1. Jamie: And you need me.
  2. Maggie Murdock: No I don't.
  3. Jamie: Yes you do.
  4. Maggie Murdock: No I don't.
  5. Jamie: *Yes*, you do.
  6. Maggie Murdock: You need someone to take care of you.
  7. Jamie: No, I don't!
  8. Jamie: Everybody does.
  – Submitted by Han N (22 months ago)
• 1. Jamie: So unfortunately, I need you. I want us, you, this.
  – Submitted by Yemin K (2 years ago)

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