Two Can Play That Game 2001

Critics score:
43 / 100

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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Overly slick and packaged, complete with intrusive product placement for beer, soda and potato chips. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Overly obvious yet often funny. Read more

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: A listless, witless battle-of-the-sexes movie that's nothing more than a canned sitcom with more sex and 'ho' references. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: An endearing romantic comedy that pokes fun at the ridiculous things people do for love. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: It does manage to be more fun than most romantic comedies these days. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: No one in this buppie fantasia, including its creative team, seems to have any interest in leaving the high school of the mind. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A pleasant enough entry in that category, if you like your romantic comedies short on love and long on battle-of-the-sexes gamesmanship. Read more

Norman Wilner, Toronto Star: The movie doesn't just hate women; it despises them. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The actors all have great charisma and play their parts with verve. The film goes down painlessly, and even the biggest curmudgeon is guaranteed to get at least a couple of laughs out of it. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Fox and Chestnut, with their fine looks and fine wardrobes, are all dressed up for a party that most guests bailed on in the last days of the old millennium. Read more

Kevin Courrier, Globe and Mail: Brown ... doesn't create satirical sex comedies so much as etiquette guides out of Dale Carnegie or Anthony Robbins. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie does have charm and moments of humor. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: At least Two Can Play That Game has some wriggle in it. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: [Brown's] writing is often insightful, and he manages to split the viewpoint between men and women. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Both sexes are portrayed as superficial and silly. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Few recent movies have conceived their central female character more contemptuously -- a fanatic for a lifestyle that appears to have come from the bestselling The Rules and someone who is obviously set up for a satiric fall. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: The only truth Brown reveals in this mean-spirited slag is what a world-class misogynist he is. Read more