L'arnacoeur 2010

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Yes, Heartbreaker is diverting, intermittently charming and occasionally funny, but it is also a jumble of jammed-together notions. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: If the ultra-annoying Hitch happened to be a French film (Le Hitch?), it might be welcomed with the same double standard as this slapsticky rom-com... Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Chaumeil's comedy cum scenery -- mainly Monte Carlo -- gives the mercurial Romain Duris a chance to show his chops as an homme fatal. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Heartbreaker relies far too heavily on the charm and attractiveness of romantic leads whose chemistry is lukewarm at best to sell a groaning collection of rom-com cliches. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It has neither a cynic's conviction nor idealist's perseverance, and its ideas about what a woman wants seem cribbed from bad paperback fiction. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The travelogue component of Heartbreaker is its best selling point. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Heartbreaker is like a caper comedy meets The Bodyguard -- it's winsome and accomplished fluff. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Slick entertainment is rarely as, yes, slickly entertaining as it is in Heartbreaker, a French romantic farce that is commercial cinema at its most successful. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: A sweetly ingratiating fuzzy navel of a movie... Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Alas, it turns out to be just as bad as any routine French romantic comedy -- illogical, inconsistent and sloppily written, a charmless, tasteless, witless waste of time. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It sparkles like champagne. It's not the good stuff, but it'll do the trick. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: When 'Heartbreaker' goes for real romance, it falters. When it goes for laughs, it hits the mark. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: There's trouble in Paradis-and in a script that prizes frenzy over any actual feeling. Read more