The Moguls 2006

Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: It ranges from awkward to excruciating. Read more

Dennis Lim, Los Angeles Times: There are no laughs to be found in writer-director Michael Traeger's would-be comedy The Amateurs, but there is one big mystery: how actors of this caliber could have been convinced to take part. Read more

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: The only burst of creativity is the number of euphemisms Traeger has for pussy ("fruit cup" was my favorite) Read more

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly: As a writer, Traeger is consternatingly adolescent and glib. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This sort of thing was done much better by the British years ago in The Full Monty and Calendar Girls. There's really no call for an American rehash. Read more

Ben Walters, Time Out: If there's something hypocritically coy about a sex comedy without sex (let alone a porn industry without victims), there's also something refreshing about the characters' unabashed good nature -- at least until the grievously saccharine finale. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Read more