How to Make Love Like an Englishman 2015

Justin Chang, Variety: The Hollywood romantic comedy hits an astonishing new low with this disastrous pairing for Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Some Kind Of Beautiful has a fine cast, but they're stuck doing shtick. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: A string of hackneyed situations and faux "edgy" humor you wouldn't find on even the worst episode of "Frasier." Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A 99-minute film that seems to last for three hours ... one of the worst films to sport the label "romantic comedy." Read more

Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: Mainly the comic outcomes of these setups are painfully predictable and when they aren't ... they border on the offensive. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: The sentimental side of the back half of the film doesn't fit with the bedroom farce sensibilities going before. Read more

Liz Braun, Toronto Sun: Sometimes, [the film] wants to be light farce, all repartee and two-dimensional characters; other times it wants to be a contender, with deathbed scenes and motivating lectures on romantic poetry. At all times it's a tremendous waste of talent. Read more

Simon Abrams, Village Voice: Hayek swings for the fences, but none of the gags she's tasked with delivering are funny, not even when she desperately pantomimes various breathless expressions men make when they orgasm. Read more