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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeThere are a couple of scenes of pure, sentimental genius, as well as appealingly boggled turns by Rudd and Wilson.
- 70Village VoiceElla TaylorVillage VoiceElla TaylorNot that How Do You Know doesn't have its moments of shamelessly entertaining shtick, much of it furnished by Nicholson (watch for a very funny visual gag about his proclivities for much younger women) and by Wilson as Lisa's current squeeze.
- 60Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFrom its bland title to its fair-to-middlin' story, mediocre is the word that fits How Do You Know perfectly.
- 50New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe sad part is that How Do You Know is nowhere near as dumb as it looks. A couple of comic set pieces are inspired-or would be, if Brooks's timing weren't off.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyA low-impact romantic comedy-drama from James L. Brooks in which the central characters are strangely disconnected from one another as well as from the audience.
- 50Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreToo cute, too star-studded and entirely too long.
- 42Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallA terrible title for a not-much-better movie, missing a grammatically correct question mark and most of the point with romantic comedies.
- 40Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerBoxoffice MagazineMark KeizerEven Reese Witherspoon, whose adorable scrunch-face projects the romantic travails of lovelorn women everywhere, looks unsure of herself.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfListen to the rhythms of "Broadcast News" - from Holly Hunter's daily crying jags to William Hurt's cock-of-the walk patter - and you'll hear how romantic comedy can approach an art form, a roundelay that requires the ear of a conductor. How Do You Know, James L. Brooks's latest, has such tone-deaf passages that it feels made by a totally different man.