Something Borrowed Reviews

Chemistry-free casting (Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski) and a flawed premise, not the recipe for a great romance

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The work of the lead trio keeps the movie from ever becoming something blue.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

No romantic drama has ever been so misguided and eager for you to root against its characters. This tacky, morally abhorrent film is unbearable.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

While Something Borrowed obviously wants to explore themes of competitiveness and betrayal in female friendships, it seems to feel compelled to hit pre-programmed chick flick beats at regular intervals.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's neither romantic nor comedic. Sort of defeats the whole point of the exercise, you know?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

You'd have a lot more fun sharing a few Heinekens than wasting your time on this movie in which lies build upon lies until the whole plot comes crashing down.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Prepare to leave feeling something blue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

...a passable romcom that just barely gets the job done...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

An intoxicated condition might be the best one in which to watch this terrible movie.

Full Review | Original Score: D

The book was good but the movie is not. Too many unlikable characters without any softening.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

It should have borrowed some charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

As a wedding drama which feels like we've seen it 1,000 times before, Something Borrowed certainly lives up to the 'seen-it-all-before' title.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

It's the Transformers of chick-flicks, a brain-stabbing hundred minutes of brutal hurtness.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5

I was grasping at straws to find anyone in the film that acted like a normal human being with a moral center.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Even though it's chick-flicky with men who are either girly men or brutish clods, Goodwin and Krasinsky (in the Tony Randall role) give good performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

If you met any of these people in real life, you'd head for the hills; here, we're trapped with them for the duration, and it feels like a season in hell.

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Some of the most utterly unlikable characters you've ever met. The exception is Kate Hudson's Darcy, who is completely detestable.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Spineless people slowly falling in love is painless to watch. 'Something Borrowed' now stands as proof of this.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

The genre always assumes we'll sympathize with ugly, soulless, personality-free women doing terrible things... But even grading on that rom-com curve, this is a disgusting movie...

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It never quite comes together because the appalling behaviour of the three main characters doesn't translate well from page to screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5