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Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: The familiar premise here has sharp fangs, unsparing wit and a knockout performance by Brittany Snow as the round-heeled 20-year-old. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Finding Amanda, the alternate title of which might well have been "I Oughta Be in Rehab," is an uneasy chronicle of addiction and denial wrapped in the rhythms of Neil Simon. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Offers a steady supply of clever lines but suffers from the patina of self-loathing common to industry lifers and the unfortunate miscasting of straight-arrow Broderick as a depressed, cynical hack. Read more
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Written with more bite, the premise might hold up, but as executed here by Tolan, it is a soft-hearted, haphazard mess. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: By keeping the tone light and the players human (Steve Coogan has a nice turn as a greasy casino host), and never, ever romanticizing the addict, Finding Amanda comes by its heartbreak honestly. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Tolan writes regularly for smart shows like Rescue Me, but his best instincts deserted him when he set his sights on the big screen for the first time. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Much of Finding Amanda doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but at its best the still-boyish Broderick suggests his most famous character, Ferris Bueller, going through a midlife crisis. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: It can be done -- there are rich, sordid black comedies out there -- but Tolan doesn't quite pull it off. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A peculiar film, which is really two films fighting to occupy the same space. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Finding Amanda has some of the good and a lot of the bad aspects of a first film written and directed by the same person. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The film's tone shifts jarringly from superficial broad comedy to something far darker. And the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold scenario is as old as the profession itself. Read more
Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Matthew Broderick regains his cinematic stride as a morosely wise-cracking television producer on the skids, ably abetted by Maura Tierney as his much-put-upon wife and Brittany Snow as his perky prostitute niece. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Finding Amanda has its wispy charms, including a funny scene when the ecstasy Taylor pops begins to kick in, and later when he encounters a pimp with showbiz aspirations. Read more