My Date with Drew 2005

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: It's like reality TV, only twice as irritating. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: This film, like the actress who inspired it, has an appealing sweetness that sneaks up on its viewer. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: It does work, and winningly so, as a sharp comedy powered by Brian Herzlinger's disarming audacity and puckish self-deprecation. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: [Barrymore's] radiant, sexy 'n' sweet manner provides a happy heart for this silly little love song of a movie. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Herzlinger comes across as kind of a nebbishy Everyman, except funnier, luckier, and in possession of the most tolerant, supportive friends on the planet. Read more

Sheela Raman, Boston Globe: In this TV reality show masquerading as a movie documentary, Brian Herzlinger is a creepy voyeur, a run-of-the-mill loser who obsesses about living the celebrity high life but lacks the talent to pull it off. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Defies all reason to emerge as an inspiring, feel-good romantic comedy. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: My Date With Drew is stupefyingly tedious and annoying, since even Herzlinger's fixation on Barrymore comes off as a quasi-sham. What he really craves is a date with fame, a mistress destined to stand him up. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: This film is a relaxing, funny, even hilarious doc about one sweet geek's magnificent obsession with Drew Barrymore. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: If you don't find the mere presence of Eric Roberts or Corey Feldman hysterically funny, you're in for a long night. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Watching My Date With Drew is like being party to the slow, poisoning death of the documentary. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: What might, in other circumstances, seem like a sweet crush comes off here as only the most shameless kind of networking. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Though undeniably slight, Brian Herzlinger's endearingly enthusiastic documentary My Date With Drew makes a pretty good case for the underdog. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: In this homemade documentary, the narrator-filmmaker moves heaven and earth to get a date with his childhood dream girl, Drew Barrymore. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Brian wants to meet Drew. By the end of his movie, we want to meet him. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: My Date with Drew is just about the right length, and contains enough feel-good energy to make it a crowd-pleaser. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If this unemployed gofer can land a date with a superstar, maybe there's hope for all of us. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Don Quixote meets Bowfinger meets Swingers for the reality-TV generation. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: If you're weirdly disinterested in the promotion of Herzlinger's career, this movie may offer all the delight of being slowly dragged by a pickup truck along a stretch of remote rural flat-top. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though his actions teeter on stalker territory, Herzlinger is both endearingly embarrassed by his own foolishness and so earnest about his fascination with the actress that we can't help but root for him. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: This maddening yet deftly made, and finally disarming, documentary comes through with enough heart and hilarity to sell its celebrity-stalking shenanigans to genuinely moving effect. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice: 'I'm scared to death that I'm gonna look like an idiot,' he tells his friends. (Too late.) Read more