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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The cast makes the film a warm and agreeable experience. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The salacious close-ups of saucepans and gnocchi and quail guarantee it: After seeing No Reservations you'll be hungry for a really top-flight meal. And, to go with it, a better film. Read more
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times: No Reservations is a factory-sealed romantic comedy. But the emotional details of its characters' journeys are surprising, honest and life-size. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Carol Fuchs's silly, mushy script has her character swerve without warning between obtuse rigidity and sweet normality. Read more
Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: It would have been nice to have some heat in the kitchen. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: There's no question how No Reservations will end, which would be just fine if the film made getting there even slightly pleasurable. Read more
Ed Masley, Arizona Republic: No amount of chemistry or comedy could make what's always bound to happen next seem any less predictable. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: No Reservations, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as a persnickety New York chef, makes a corned beef hash out of Mostly Martha, the much-loved 2001 German film from which it has been Hollywoodized. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Everything in it is designed to make you feel better, so why does it feel artificial and palliative in that really depressing way? Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It has the smooth, caramelized sheen of a confection that goes down easy -- but won't be too hard to forget. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: No Reservations is diverting because of all the gleaming food on display. For those of us who can't stand the heat and so stay out of the kitchen, the intricate preparation of quail with truffle sauce is a wonder to behold. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: No Reservations may not be grand eats, but it is tasty. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: On paper, it had to look like a guaranteed chick flick for the Food Network generation. On film, though, it's too tepid to work. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A familiar dish doesn't have to be a bland one, but No Reservations doesn't allow for the slightest grain of salt. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: In the same way that leftover food sometimes tastes better warmed over, No Reservations is a more enjoyable film than the 2001 German film on which it is based, Mostly Martha. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Everyone involved is so pedigreed, so capable, they make the experience go down easier that it ordinarily might. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: You don't need to have been a fan of the terrific German film Mostly Martha that inspired this remake, or even to have seen the original, to recognize that her American cousin has a tendency to overcook things. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Based on the popular German comedy Mostly Martha, it doesn't leave a bad taste. It doesn't leave much taste at all, save perhaps for the cloying echoes of Velveeta cheese. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The surface is as fine and brittle as a souffle, but the inside is just as full of air. Touch it once, and it deflates. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The first lesson we learn in Scott Hicks' contrived romance No Reservations is that 'there's no greater sin than to overcook a quail.' The second is that a blandly seasoned comedy is nearly as unappetizing. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A souffle of a romantic and family comedy that stubbornly refuses to rise. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's the blandness of the characters, the staleness of the settings and Zeta Jones' struggle with reserve that hobbles No Reservations. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Alas, not even Eckhart and Breslin can get Zeta-Jones to simmer. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's not exactly revolutionary territory but it is effectively presented and it will be hard to find viewers who aren't at least a little moved by what director Scott Hicks has placed on the screen. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is a remake of Mostly Martha (2001), a German film very much liked by many. No Reservations doesn't seem to reinvent it so much as recycle it. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Sometimes movies make sense in a logical way; sometimes they make only emotional sense. No Reservations makes no damned sense at all. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: To see No Reservations is to see what's wrong with a lot of American movies. A remake Mostly Martha, it takes a winning recipe and adds some distinctly Hollywood flavors: It takes adult characters and has them behave like children. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Five years from now, this bland and forgettable throwaway will be remembered only for Breslin, who will by then be a poised and gifted 16-year-old actress (as long as she keeps out of Lohan-like trouble -- please, Abby!). Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Though it loses something in the American homogenization, No Reservations is still a passable romantic dish. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: A shamelessly microwaved American rewarming of the 2002 German romantic comedy Mostly Martha. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: No Reservations is worth penciling in to your schedule, though it's more guilty diversion than memorable feast. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: The thing's so charming and frothy and delightful and sentimental and beautifully shot and well-acted and sincere that it takes a good couple of hours before you start craving real nourishment. Read more
Hank Stuever, Washington Post: There's already a crazy behind-the-scenes restaurant movie out this summer, and it's got a better story, and it's a cartoon, and it stars a rat. Read more