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How to Be Single boasts the rough outline of a feminist rom-com, but too willingly indulges in the genre conventions it wants to subvert.
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How to Be Single is over a half hour before it's over. November 14, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
How to Be Single is over a half hour before it's over.
Mick LaSalle
True, your average broody careerist might struggle to find a gym-toned-cutie with a secret yearning to be a stay-at-home dad. Then again, what film doesn't encourage fantasies? February 21, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
True, your average broody careerist might struggle to find a gym-toned-cutie with a secret yearning to be a stay-at-home dad. Then again, what film doesn't encourage fantasies?
Charlotte O'Sullivan
The film delivers good-natured joke after good-natured joke and enjoyable character after enjoyable character. February 19, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film delivers good-natured joke after good-natured joke and enjoyable character after enjoyable character.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
There are quite a few elements to appreciate in this mixed-up patchwork. February 18, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There are quite a few elements to appreciate in this mixed-up patchwork.
Philippa Hawker
How many other permutations of Manhattan mating rituals can there be? No really interesting ones, is the short answer. February 18, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
How many other permutations of Manhattan mating rituals can there be? No really interesting ones, is the short answer.
Ed Potton
Wilson has one or two good lines, but this film looks like it's been put together by one of Brie's dodgy algorithms. February 18, 2016 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Wilson has one or two good lines, but this film looks like it's been put together by one of Brie's dodgy algorithms.
Peter Bradshaw
No, nothing about this world seems real, yet somehow this energetic subversion of typical rom-coms manages to be more relatable and entertaining than it has any right to be. April 3, 2020 | Full Review…
No, nothing about this world seems real, yet somehow this energetic subversion of typical rom-coms manages to be more relatable and entertaining than it has any right to be.
Dan Scully
How to Be Single is a fluffy comedy at times that does have some depth to its script. January 22, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
How to Be Single is a fluffy comedy at times that does have some depth to its script.
Sarah Knight Adamson
No amount of "hey, at least they seem to be trying" can excuse the phoned-in plotting and prefab, contrived wish-fulfillment that passes for a screenplay. January 13, 2020 | Full Review…
No amount of "hey, at least they seem to be trying" can excuse the phoned-in plotting and prefab, contrived wish-fulfillment that passes for a screenplay.
Chris McCoy
Blending the clichéd with the new, How To Be Single is a surprise but not a revelation. April 12, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Blending the clichéd with the new, How To Be Single is a surprise but not a revelation.
Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan
"How to Be Single" is short of phenomenal, eliciting thoughtful themes only with the ingredients for greatness, not the recipe. April 5, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
"How to Be Single" is short of phenomenal, eliciting thoughtful themes only with the ingredients for greatness, not the recipe.
Mae Abdulbaki
How to Be Single desperately wants you to think that it is somehow different than its more traditional counterparts, but despite a few decorative trappings, the film remains a formulaic rom-com in subversive clothing. February 20, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
How to Be Single desperately wants you to think that it is somehow different than its more traditional counterparts, but despite a few decorative trappings, the film remains a formulaic rom-com in subversive clothing.
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