All About Steve Reviews
On paper, a crazy romcom starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper could only be a good thing. Wrong.
| Original Score: 1/5 | May 28, 2013
All About Steve is a messy assemblage of clumsy sight gags, winking reaction shots and disingenuous populist genuflection to the idea that there's no such thing as normal. We all see a little bit of Mary in ourselves, don't we? Don't we?
| May 28, 2013
Kooky? Hardly. Cringing? Most assuredly.
| Original Score: 1/5 | May 28, 2013
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy review.
| Original Score: 0/4 | May 28, 2013
Just when it seems All About Steve couldn't grow any more insufferable, it turns strangely sentimental.
Full Review | May 28, 2013
Mary is a memorable comic creation for all the wrong reasons: glibly written, offensively characterised and bizarrely dressed, she's the classic screwball ditz taken to grotesque and at times unwatchable extremes.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2010
One of the ropiest would-be screwball comedies conceived recently.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2010
A film that looks as if it's been through 1,001 test screenings, script drafts and reshoots, each unfunnier and more muddled than the last.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2010
Whatever disturbed and previously untapped audience this is meant to find, it's certainly novel.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2010
The film is such a misjudged farrago that it makes Miss Congeniality seem like a masterpiece.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2010
In which Sandra Bullock flails through another non-com of an awfulness she seems unerringly inclined to repeat.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2010
Sandra Bullock is pretty good at making a silk purse out of a sow's ear but she's got her work cut out with this would-be quirky comedy.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2010
If terrible movies were car crashes, this 101-minute horror-show is a coachload of orphans slamming headlong into the Hoover Dam - and 2010 is unlikely to serve up anything worse.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2010
Her most irritating and unfunniest film to date.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 22, 2009
The taint of desperation lies so heavily on the entire exercise.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 21, 2009
Packaged as a romantic comedy but devoid of comedy or romance, this baffling train wreck stars Sandra Bullock as a tediously kooky constructor of crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper.
| Sep 21, 2009
A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 9, 2009
It's dreadful.
Full Review | Sep 8, 2009
An interminable series of gags based around the shrillest, most obvious characters imaginable.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 4, 2009
Oops, sorry, we're not supposed to think of Mary as mentally ill, psychologically unbalanced, or any of those painful things, just full of gumption and sunny determination.
| Original Score: D | Sep 4, 2009