Maybe the movie is a cautionary tale intended to show how we don’t need to spend to be happy. Maybe, but I doubt it, since several scenes describe the ecstasy of shopping and the allure of name brands.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2023

this simple rom-com actually delivers the goods in terms of a positive message for young people that acknowledges the sugar-rush of comfort-shopping

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2022

This one's smarter than your average fluffy rom-com but still pretty by-the-numbers fluff all the same.

| Jul 6, 2021

The fish-out-of-water story seems to keep popping up in every single romantic comedy of late, and this one is no exception.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Bubble-brained but fun, if you can stand the glossy consumerism.

| Nov 20, 2020

Inconsequential, even for a rom-com.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2020

he problem is that filmmaker P.J. Hoganspends so much time glorifying everything Gucci and Prada by the time the film gets down to moralizing it feels misguided and vacant.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

[CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC] will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you glad those credit card bills are Becky Bloomwood's and not yours.

| Nov 6, 2019

Real shopaholics should skip this one and save their money for one of those sample sales Rebecca loves so much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 11, 2018

Confession #1: Despite all reasonable logic and preconceived expectations, I enjoyed Confessions of a Shopaholic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2014

Cinematic impulse buy that sparkles through its 100 minutes.

| Aug 15, 2011

A disappointing comedy, out of synch with the zeitgeist

| Original Score: C | Jun 12, 2011

an exceedingly safe movie, which can serve as entertainment for the first date crowd or the couple who has been happily married for years

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2010

If you are willing to turn your brain off, Fisher makes the film very watchable, but it's core message over materialism and financial stupidity are confused and the film lacks just that few more laughs to tip it above mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2010

This is a film that couldn't buy a positive female character if there was a barrel full on clearance at Bloomies.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2009

Charm can go a long way in making a film. Or, in the case of Confessions of a Shopaholic, the charm of Isla Fisher makes the film bearable.

| Aug 15, 2009

Even without the bad timing %u2013 a paean to debt and excess released a few months after the world's biggest financial meltdown since the 1920s %u2013 it still would not have worked.

Full Review | Original Score: 60/100 | Jul 6, 2009

Hollywood likes nothing more than having its cake and eating it too, which explains the confusions of P.J. Hogan's Confessions of a Shopaholic. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 1, 2009

Doesn't operate on a level of logic, being the fantasy that it is, but the enthusiasm of its star and the color dynamics of its lush parade of fashion makes it a solid must see for the teenage girl crowd.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 19, 2009

...a typically dumbed-down mainstream romantic comedy...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2009