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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. Nov 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? Feb 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. Feb 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. Feb 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. Feb 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. Feb 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
Blending the clichéd with the new, How To Be Single is a surprise but not a revelation. Apr 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. Apr 4, 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. Feb 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.
Allen Adams
A film with plenty of flaws but also fleeting moments of insights into relationships that make it more fun than I was expecting. Jan 15, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
A film with plenty of flaws but also fleeting moments of insights into relationships that make it more fun than I was expecting.
Micheal Compton
Still, for a movie that's built largely on rom-com tropes, it's actually surprising how much [the characters] avoid cliché. Dec 25, 2018 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Full Review…
Still, for a movie that's built largely on rom-com tropes, it's actually surprising how much [the characters] avoid cliché.
Marisa Carpico
Unfortunately, How to be Single is annoyingly jittery and woefully generic. The characterizations all feel synthetic and the contrived dilemmas for how these young women cope with men of uncertainty, reluctance and absurdity fall flat Nov 8, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, How to be Single is annoyingly jittery and woefully generic. The characterizations all feel synthetic and the contrived dilemmas for how these young women cope with men of uncertainty, reluctance and absurdity fall flat
Frank Ochieng
Too much Rebel Wilson (who is neither funny or convincing) and a child free character who turns full baby crazed within 10 minutes kill this one. Otherwise could have been a decent chick flick.
Super Reviewer
A kind of clever and poignant film about relationships, How to Be Single is an entertaining rom-com. After Alice breaks up with her long-time boyfriend she befriends a co-worker who helps her navigate the single scene in New York City; meanwhile, her sister faces her own relationship issues when a casual hook up turns into something more. Starring Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, and Leslie Mann, the casting is pretty good (through Wilson is rather annoying; playing her typical load mouth character). And, the film has some interesting things to say about dating, and the societal expectations that come with it. However, it can be a bit clichéd at times and the jokes are hit and miss. How to Be Single has some problems, but there's a sincerity to it and it deliver a lot of laughs.
Dakota Johnson's flat everygirl quality is actually quite perfect for Alice, a twenty-something trying to find herself in the aftermath of a codependent relationship. There is the requisite misguided ex-sex and no-strings-attached friend-sex of a standard romcom, but there's also genuine friendship between the age-diverse women and a good balance of raunchy girl-bonding comedy (courtesy of reliable hot mess Rebel Wilson) and complex emotion from the parade of interesting new suitors. The ending also delivers well on the premise of the title - no more, no less.
How to be Single. When I first when into the cinema I was very skeptical, I don't dig chick flicks and I wouldn't classify this as a chick flick although it does capture the female experience of being single. I had mixed feelings about the movie, I felt as if the plot was very unfocused and the character development was awful on some of the characters. You don't actually grow to care to about any of them, I got a 'Crazy Stupid Love" vibe but the characters weren't handled as well. There were too many characters and there wasn't really a lead character to follow. It's just different characters in their own little world. Let's get it this out of the way, I hate Rebel Wilson, I think the whole 'Fat Amy' and making fun of herself is not funny, she plays the same person in every movie, I think she has potential but it is clearly not visible in this movie. She has no development in the movie. Besides those flaws, I actually laughed a few times and I was thoroughly enjoying myself at most times. Leslie Mann and Dakota Johnson were the best in there roles in my opinion. Overall, this movie wasn't a bad time. Go see it if there are no Deadpool showings and if you got the extra money! As a comedy it made me laugh and for that it gets a 6.5/10.
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