Hopefully, Rob Reiner just suffered a case of writer's block/director's block like his character Alex Sheldon with Alex & Emma.

| Nov 6, 2019

The actors make this fun if you can overlook the ludicrous view of Jeremy Leven's screenplay concerning how novels are written and what publishers generally pay for them.

| Feb 8, 2012

About as funny as root canal work and as romantic as a rainy fortnight in Wrexham. Rob Reiner should make a phone call to Christopher Guest a priority.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 8, 2012

Uninspired -- neither romantic nor comic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2010

"Alex & Emma" has a light tone of modernized '20s inflected comedy that Woody Allen would love to still be able to capture in his movies.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 2, 2009

No matter how hard Alex and Emma tries, it's still the same package but with new wrapping.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 29, 2009

What might have looked like a good idea on paper goes seriously awry in the screen treatment of this clunker from writer Jeremy Leven and director Rob Reiner.

| Oct 18, 2008

A miserable failure on every count.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Ultimately, the most interesting thing about the film is that it was based on a true incident in author Fyodor Dostoevsky's life.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2006

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 16, 2005

What is unusual about the film is that we see both the real life of the characters, and scenes from the hero's novel.

| Dec 13, 2004

Delves into ... all the odious cliches of the romantic comedy genre, but Reiner justifies it by laughing at the ridiculousness of his own story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2004

Wilson is inert and lethargic... Instead of adding some comic energy and vitality to the proceedings, he seems to be sleepwalking through them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2004

...sweet without being romantic, cute without being funny.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 9, 2003

Mesmo escrito sem maiores cuidados ou reflexes (assim como o livro de seu protagonista), o longa ingnuo (no sentido positivo da palavra) o bastante para divertir por 90 minutos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2003

The tepid lead characters, housed by actors who don't even share any chemistry, finally have nowhere to go in a film as flat as its interior dime-store novel.

| Aug 13, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10 | Jul 31, 2003

Luke Wilson in another variation of "Pete."

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2003

With its awkward blend of postmodern literary debate and formulaic romantic comedy, Alex and Emma has the unfortunate distinction of being too intellectual for stupid people and too stupid for intellectual people.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2003