Deliver Us from Eva 2003

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Dawdles amiably and can't quite decide what it wants to be. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Gets you so close to these people that you truly wish them well. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Deliver Us from Eva isn't The Taming of the Shrew; it's not even a reasonable facsimile. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Solid cast and the occasional chuckle notwithstanding, this movie is wildly uneven, chugging this way and that before careening off track. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: As frothy, sex-obsessed romantic comedies go, Deliver Us From Eva pretty much delivers the goods. Read more

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: A welcome respite from verbal nastiness and sexual cynicism. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The movie, whose subsidiary characters remain vague, is carried by the sharp comic performance of Ms. Union, a quick-witted actress who succeeds in imbuing Eva's priggishness and arrogance with a certain nobility. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Not only is this a funny and romantic movie, but it proves, yet again, that movies can and, in some instances, should be colorblind. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Flows smoothly, looks great and probably cost lots less than it looks. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Stuff like that happens only in sitcoms and bad movies ... Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The plot takes preposterous turns, and the story takes too long to give us characters to care about. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: That's all anyone is called on to do: Be very tame, and make much ado about zilch. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Any romantic comedy that gives you time to think probably isn't doing its job. Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: The cast is charming and capable enough, but they are wasted in thinly sketched roles trapped in toothless comedy. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Union wins you over to the movie while making you wish she had a script smart enough to really serve her talents. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Hardwick takes firm command of a script originally written with white people in mind and makes it hum with hip aggressiveness and glisten with boutique style. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Deliver us from screenplays that force likable protagonists to twist and bend their personalities to serve the contortions of a ridiculous and formulaic plot. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It proceeds so deliberately from one plot point to the next that we want to stand next to the camera, holding up cards upon which we have lettered clues and suggestions. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Hardwick ... directs with energy and rhythm. Read more

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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Depicts gender warfare as a kind of pillow fight. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: [Smith] and Union bring out the best in each other, especially (and surprisingly) during the more dramatic emotional interludes. Read more

Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: As for Eva getting her groove back, well, aside from some ill-advised horseback riding, James Todd Smith proves a worthy match. Read more