It qualifies very well as that crowd-pleasing romantic comedy audiences love and brings the "layers" that puts it near the greats in its genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2024

A mix of Before Sunrise, Down With Love and The Holiday, Friends With Benefits seeks to skewer Hollywood tropes of the genre as well as homaging classics of the past.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 5, 2023

Friends with Benefits brings nothing new to the romantic comedy genre but it's so much fun watching Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.

| Feb 28, 2022

The plot is really just a rickety frame on which to hang cultural references. My God, the cultural references. Flash mobs! Street art! Smart phones! '90s nostalgia! Guerrilla advertising! iPads! Sexting!

| Jan 8, 2021

It is one of the freshest and funniest romantic comedies of the summer.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

Friends With Benefits told me one of the best lies ever. I smiled so hard, for so long, I had to ice my face when I got home.

| May 24, 2018

These types of movies are going to keep coming out and there's just nothing we can do do about it.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 8, 2017

Aside from boasting an impressive catalog of Sony products, "Friends With Benefits" has little else on offer.

| Oct 7, 2015

A sexy, funny and very familiar picture carried by an effervescent atmosphere and some phenomenal chemistry between these two stars.

| May 12, 2015

An abominable beast of a film.

| Sep 8, 2013

A smart romantic comedy that both mocks and features romantic clichs.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2013

It doesn't help, either, that both Timberlake and Kunis are charming yet utterly bland in their respective roles...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 5, 2013

Kunis and Timberlake are pitch perfect in Friends With Benefits, a predictable, yet extremely accessible tale of love, sex and complications.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 22, 2012

This is just another forgettable by-the-numbers romantic-comedy that ends up going nowhere unexpected.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2012

Timberlake and Kunis are fearless, funny, and just incredibly likable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2012

The inherent likability of the two leads alone elevates this above the average comedy. Their willingness-especially Timberlake's-to appear foolish doesn't hurt either.

| Original Score: B | Dec 28, 2011

If it displayed more courage, this could have been a fascinating modern American movie. Instead it's a smart but still rather ordinary comedy that is entertaining but not ground-breaking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2011

If you've ever wondered why romantic comedy is in such a sorry state, watch these two appealing actors go through every false note in the book in a movie so disingenuous that the neither premise, the climax, nor the resolution ever feels remotely real.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 9, 2011

Anyone who has ever seen a romantic comedy before knows where this one is going.

| Oct 7, 2011

full review at Movies for the Masses

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 29, 2011