New Year's Eve (2011)

All Critics (133) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (125) | DVD (3)

New Year's Eve is a perfect example of why the adjective "Hollywood" is so often used as a pejorative.

December 9, 2011 Full Review | Comments (17)

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

The only entertaining way to watch New Year's Eve is as a cruel experiment in which performers stranded with absolutely no script support are forced to subsist on pure presence, which quickly becomes a blood sport in which only a few survive.

December 9, 2011 Full Review | Comments (14)

Linda Holmes

NPR

Top Critic

Written on the level of a bad episode of The Love Boat, this is one of those concoctions that intertwines about 10 storylines and then concludes with a cherry on top.

December 9, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

The only thing that can inspire more cynicism than a holiday's coerced emotions may be a film that both exploits and celebrates said emotions.

December 9, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

It's all perfectly pleasant and perfectly harmless and perfectly bland.

December 9, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper.com

Top Critic

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? I don't know, but "New Year's Eve" sure should be.

December 9, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

The bland lead the bland through a sea of New Year's revelers...

January 5, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Colossal waste of talent and time.

June 3, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

If you have a low threshold for corn syrup, you may not be able to stand it.

April 26, 2012 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Your appreciation for the film may depend on your tolerance for sugar.

April 26, 2012 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Among the year's worst films. The tragedy is funny, the comedy is tragic, and about its only saving grace is that it makes 2010's Valentines Day look almost passable.

March 22, 2012 Full Review

Catherine Bray

Film4

...a perfectly watchable (and consistently hackneyed) feel-good ensemble drama.

January 31, 2012 Full Review | Comments (5)

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The cinematic equivalent of a piece of New York style cheesecake and about as artistically satisfying.

January 9, 2012 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

a sea of quickly put together, cheesy romcom vignettes that fail to put across any kind of meaningful message

January 4, 2012 Full Review

James Luxford

The National

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December 26, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

New Year's Eve is pretty much laugh-free, trading on tired visual gags and some unbelievably cynical 'cutesy' scenes (baby montage anyone?) for most of its humour.

December 23, 2011 Full Review

Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

Garry Marshall, how could you? You have made a mockery of a movie that bears the name of my birthday. I take this as a personal affront.

December 17, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

... a nice box of holiday chocolates ...

December 17, 2011 Full Review

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Proves, in its tiny way, that no matter how bad the modern romantic comedy has already become, there's still plenty of room for it to get worse.

December 16, 2011 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

A joyless, overstuffed confection that seems designed more to maximise product placement.

December 15, 2011 Full Review

James Croot

Flicks.co.nz

No message, no car chases and explosions, no 3D - just relaxing entertainment

December 14, 2011 Full Review | Comments (18)

Jackie K. Cooper

jackiekcooper.com

Much of it is dreck but the stories that work are charming and in a few select cases, provide a sudden emotional wallop.

December 12, 2011 Full Review

Lori Hoffman

Atlantic City Weekly

Watching Robert De Niro put yet another nail in the coffin of his career is bad enough, but et tu Michelle Pfeiffer?

December 12, 2011 Full Review | Comments (5)

Jeff Meyers

Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

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