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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: This is a movie that is warning us against the dangers of being slaves to labels while at the same time celebrating those same designer brands. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: If there is a single bright spot in the financial crisis, it is the possibility that one day producer Jerry Bruckheimer will run out of money. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: If the movie didn't pander so madly to the audience for Sex and the City and Legally Blonde, it might have been a comedy touchstone instead of a cringeworthy footnote. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Put this one back on the shelf, and walk away. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The production renders totally irrelevant all hopes for a well-made movie. It's one of those ragged, pandemonious studio comedies that hammers at plot points in every contrived scene. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Overall Shopaholic seems to be standing in an empty station, waving a futile hand at a train long gone. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Fisher makes for a winning Cinderella, but by its third act, this hokey, old-fashioned vehicle turns back into a pumpkin. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Part shopping fantasy, part cautionary debt tale and all chick flick, Confessions of a Shopaholic is like Sex and the City with a lower IQ. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Fantasy here usually comes at reality's expense. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Though you might wonder whether there's room in a movie marketplace that already feels overstocked with romantic comedies, Confessions of a Shopaholic arrives fashionably late and dressed to kill. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Isla Fisher is such a bundle of comic energy that watching her spin her wheels in the aggressively unfunny Confessions of a Shopaholic counts as cruel and unusual punishment -- for her as well as for us. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: It was hard to shake the worry that a fizzy comedy about debt would be about as wrong for our current woes as uncorking a bottle of champagne. Confessions is definitely slight. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: There is so much wrong with Confessions of a Shopaholic -- timing, execution, resolution and moral stance, to name a few -- that it's hard to know where to begin. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: From its talking storewindow mannequins to its sneaky debauched heroine, the movie is romantic-comedy fizz, but it's fizz that bubbles like champagne. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: There really is no appropriate moment for a shrill onslaught that perpetuates the worst stereotypes about female materialism. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Too bad. It could have been more, and its audience deserves better. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: A schizophrenic apologia for its own existence, Confessions tries to poise itself as a cautionary film against overspending, even as it pans longingly over rows of sherbet colored shoes. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Isla Fisher is carrying this often stylish comedy on her Prada-upholstered back. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Here we are, only nine months after the Sex and the City movie, and an obsessive spender with an overstuffed closet -and credit card bills to match- no longer seems quite so cute. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Note to would-be financial journalists: No one cares about your personal musings. Not even at Portfolio. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I can't really recommend this movie in these perilous times, except for viewers in search of a nostalgic chuckle or two. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A dizzy and chic chick picture for our times, this hit-or-miss comedy is about the perils of conspicuous consumption, the void that shopping fills in some souls. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: I didn't much like Shopaholic, but, boy, did Fisher make me laugh. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: "Coraline" is more grounded in reality. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The plotting is on automatic pilot. It needs Chesley B. Sullenberger III. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Confessions is no more than a painless time-waster. But the beguiling Fisher is well worth the investment. Read more
Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: Could there be a worse time to revisit the indulgences of the '00s? Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: If you spin out the unintended analogy of Confessions of a Shopaholic to the current financial crisis, the film starts to mutate from a not-that-funny comedy into a tragic allegory. Read more
Kara Nesvig, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Had Confessions been truer to its chick-lit novel inspiration, the movie could have been fizzily enjoyable instead of sickening. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: I did not know that mannequins in Manhattan store windows could actually talk. I did not find their performance in the least wooden. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: It's very hard to watch a wild-eyed woman engage in an orgy of avarice using a fan of maxed-out cards when so many have lost so much - even if there is a message within the madness, that fiscal responsibility is the true key to happiness. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Bad timing is merely one of this rom-com's lesser problems; the abundance of wasted talent on display is an even bigger concern. Read more
Nina Caplan, Time Out: If you want gritty realism, see an arthouse movie. Or shop in a pound store. As journalist Rebecca, Isla Fisher is silly and adorable - just like this adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's novel. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: [T]his adaptation is really just about buying the 'brand,' and--like the retailers in the film--selling America something it already had. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Not only is it an unfunny movie shrilly told, it probably is the most ill-timed and appallingly insulting movie in recent memory. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Strains far too hard for comedy that seldom erupts with full force and inevitably betrays a free-spending mindset that now feels gone with the wind. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Confessions of a Shopaholic plays like both a supremely outmoded chick-lit adaptation and an outrageously obscene gesture as the economy continues to swallow up livelihoods, homes, and hope. Read more
John Anderson, Washington Post: Rebecca is the Lucy Ricardo of profligate spending. Read more