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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: What sets it slightly apart is a willingness to deal with a potentially tricky subject -- race -- in the context of light-hearted fluff. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: Happily for those of us who enjoy the genre but wouldn't mind more substance on the empty-calorie march toward bliss, Something New, the beguiling feature film debut from Sanaa Hamri, carries a little bit more weight than the average rom-com. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: The race card is still in play no matter what the social strata, but the message gets lost in the medium of excessive cuteness and too many contrived disagreements in dialogue. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: It sometimes seems at odds with itself, vacillating between a realistic presentation of the obstacles black professional women face finding a suitable mate and another bit of Hollywood fluff where their skin color is glossed over. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: In a racially skittish nation where the most recent studio movie about interracial relations was the abysmal Guess Who, this film has the kind of guts we rarely see in mainstream movies. And it's romantic, too. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It's just too bad that this half-realized concept is tethered to an utterly unconvincing, warmed-over interracial romance rooted more in Harlequin fantasy than social realism. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: The screenplay is smart, witty and understated, and director Sanaa Hamri shows a firm hand with her actors and injects the movie with a fresh energy that lives up to the title. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is an inept and unsubtle romantic fantasy about how black people and white people don't mix. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: The film's lack of depth as it oversimplifies the complexities of racism keep it from being anything other than a lightweight date movie. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Something New is actually something totally unexpected: a blissfully swoony romance spiked with frank talk about race and class that nudges the plot forward but never feels forced. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Something New is an observant, clever riff on the familiar problems of romance and the career gal. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Something New is a message movie and it doesn't hide that fact. But it also goes beyond the message, and that's why it works. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [The film] is a shaky piece of work, with stumpy cinematography, choppy edits, speechy dialogue, and loose plotlines. And yet: There's an easygoing authenticity to the depiction of Kenya and her world. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Even when skewering the pompousness of upper-class black mobility, it's still adorable. Read more
Jean Nash Johnson, Dallas Morning News: If February is prime time for celebrating romance and black culture, then Something New delivers a powerfully seductive two-for-the-show. Read more
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: It's a fabrication of a gauzy romantic-comedy movieland where people of all colors can be equally trite and dull. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Hamri delivers a thoughtful, entertaining, imperfect but solidly adult movie about the inconvenient path of true love. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Something New isn't Something Hilarious. But it is sweet enough and provocative enough to make it Hollywood's best date movie this Valentine's Day. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film is not riotous, but it is sporadically amusing, and the love affair is respectful of the characters, not fatuous. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Something New delivers all the usual pleasures of a love story, and something more. The movie respects its subject and characters, and is more complex about race than we could possibly expect. Read more
Anna Smith, Time Out: By and large this is a hollow, laugh-free zone paying lip service to the issue in trite, predictable fashion. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Sanaa Lathan's classiness flows from the poise she projects...Her cool understatement helps put over Something New's premise -- which, if not old, is no longer in its 20s. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: Look too closely and there will be questions about abandoned plot threads and excised scenes. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Sanaa Hamri's brisk, refreshingly understated romantic comedy Something New is the rare movie that delivers on its title's promise. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The fun -- and the seriousness -- of the movie is in watching a beautiful, classy woman challenge an equally delectable opponent. It's one heck of a matchup. Read more