New In Town Reviews

There are precious few laughs to be found in this tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The screenplay is credited to Kenneth Rance and C. Jay Cox, but it's so shockingly inept, it might have been churned out by some cheap screenwriting software.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5

There is the expected smattering of slapstick moments and Connick Jr delivers the requisite outdoorman charm to show Renee just how cool the cold can be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Groundbreaking cinema it ain't, with the story unfolding exactly as you'd expect. But fans of the corn director Frank Capra used to cook will find it a dish to savour.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

There are fears the recession could turn into a depression - which is where you'll be if you endure this "romantic comedy" about factory workers facing the sack.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

We have to munch through a load of Capra-corn as she switches from corporate hatchet-woman to champion of local business. "You know, you're not so bad when you're unconscious," says Connick Jr of her. We could probably say the same of the scriptwriter.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Zellweger's face looks stuck in a permanent wince. Oh wait, it's the clunking script about a spike-heeled career girl forced to move from Miami to Minnesota.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

New In Town is rather like tapioca itself, soggy and virtually tasteless. It's like a Frank Capra movie with hardened arteries.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

By the time the film presents us with the social problem of getting an errant handful of buckshot fired into your bottom, you realise that everyone has lost faith in the movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

This is not the first movie to have a laugh with the hicks versus city slicks theme - it's a pity director Jonas Elmer didn't add a little acid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

Utterly predictable comedy-drama that stays watchable thanks to a likeable cast and some decent dialogue, even if the Zellweger / Connick Jr pairing doesn't exactly set the screen alight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

This is the classic 'How come I never heard of this movie?" One day you are watching TV, and New in Town pops on and nothing makes sense. You wonder how you missed hearing about this film in the theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

All it does is mine stereotypes about the small-town Upper Midwest that were starting to get cliched when "The Music Man" was first staged in 1957.

| Original Score: 0/4

With charming performances by Hogan and Simmons, this is a feel-good movie that I enjoyed. Who cares if it's derivative?

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Here's a perfect example of bad timing: The release of 'New in Town.'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The offspring of "Baby Boom" meets "Doc Hollywood."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The sight of the Gold Circle Films logo at the top of a romantic comedy released at the beginning of the year is a most dire signifier of impending cinematic doom.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

New in Town subjects Lucy (Renée Zellweger) to a series of life-changing revelations, most stemming from a reductive big city/small town dichotomy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

The sort of inane rom-com drivel that Hollywood recycles on a regular basis.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Before I sat through New in Town, I'd have said that putting J.K. Simmons and a T. Rex song in a movie could only help. Now I know better.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5