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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: New in Town is The Pajama Game without the songs, the laughs or the bare-knuckled realism. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The laughs and emotional moments are so weak that director Jonas Elmer has no choice but to tweak them with music cues and bland guitar-rock. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The month of January has come to be known as a graveyard for bad movies, but how bad can it get? This one answers the question. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: There's nothing fresh here; it's a Bridget-Jones-meets-Baby Boom/fish-out-of-water/opposites-attract kind of thing. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Even pandering fairy tales about the innate decency of common people should have at least a fuzzy basis in reality. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: New in Town is a perfectly dreadful movie. You end up really reaching if you try to pinpoint the film's redeeming qualities. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: You've seen New in Town before, and you've seen it done better. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The timing couldn't have been better for a romantic comedy with a love-among-the-financial-ruins theme to come along. But if you're looking for a welcome mat for New in Town, you won't find it here. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: In the current economic climate, this comedy about workers whose livelihood is rescued by a benevolent boss represents the ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy. Don't spend your hard-earned discretionary cash on it. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Yes, this movie offers dumb hope in wretched times, but for many, dumb hope is preferable to no hope at all. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: How much do I want to believe in America 2.0 as a place where a Suit might help factory workers survive hard times? Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Good people of Minnesota: Stand up! Fight back! Take back your state and your culture and your accent! Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: Broad accents, broader slapstick and a willful shrinking from anything remotely original. ... Also much condescension, toward both the characters and the audience. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: A romantic comedy that's neither romantic nor funny. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: With the recession getting worse by the day, it's asking an awful lot for audiences to laugh at a romantic comedy centering on corporate layoffs. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The comedy is harmless as a farm-fresh egg, sunny side up and runny in the middle. Pleasant enough going down, but an hour after breakfast you can't remember what it tasted like. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Zellweger and Connick make a believable couple and one with real oil-and-water-don't-mix sparks. This is what romantic chemistry looks like. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: New in Town is so choppy that it would seem to have been edited with a pickax. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The movie has little to recommend it and more than a few things to encourage those who pursue quality cinema to stay away. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: The offspring of "Baby Boom" meets "Doc Hollywood." Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Am I giving too much away? This is the kind of movie that gives itself away. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The thudding sounds you hear at New In Town are jokes landing like lead balloons and conking the life out of the actors. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: [A] drearily cheerful little picture that isn't nearly as funny or as heartwarming -- or even as topical, given the economic climate -- as it thinks it is. Read more
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: There should be a special Oscar for good actors who still give their all when they're in bad movies. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: For many Americans, the only believable part of New in Town may be its ominous premise: There's a rich jerk in town, and she's come to take away your job. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The film squeezes every ounce of sweet-tempered comic potential from brutal windchill, Lutheran reticence and white-bread cuisine. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Poor Renee. Her character may find a cozy hearth, but she's definitely left way out in the cold. Read more
Greg Quill, Toronto Star: There's a Capra-esque joy in this small and unpretentious movie. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: A shockingly banal script lends the movie a generic awfulness; you wish Zellweger were in better hands. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It follows a particularly abhorrent Hollywood formula: Ridicule the friendly, rural folks, show how stupid they are, then by the end, place their small-town values and inherent decency on a pedestal. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: Because every development in New in Town is so predictable, so reminiscent of other, better romantic comedies, it actually seems longer than it is. Read more
Brian Miller, Village Voice: The movie wrong-foots Zellweger from the start. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: There's nothing novel about this overly familiar farce. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Read more