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

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

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

| Oct 7, 2011

These smart actors are deconstructing their own glamour and seem far more scrumptious as a result.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2011

You can tell this romantic comedy thinks it's a cut above from the way it keeps sniggering at the feebleness of other romantic comedies -- a risky strategy, as it turns out.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 9, 2011

Really: no benefits to watching this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2011

It's perky enough, but as unlovable as Timberlake is unlovable. There's something appallingly lifeless in his smile: as though it were pulled up by hooks.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2011

Friends With Benefits has some genuine pleasures to offer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2011

Consider our faith in Hollywood romance restored. For now.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2011

The chemistry between Kunis and her co-star Justin Timberlake is electric.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2011

This coasts along just fine thanks to charm and comical interludes, but it fails to deliver the sassy story it promises. Fine for a romantic comedy, but an inferior follow up to director Gluck's edgier Easy A.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2011

The film is touching and funny, and Timberlake proves again that he's a better actor than most pop stars.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2011

It's not in the Hepburn-Tracy league but it is way smarter than most entries in this field.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2011

Perfect date movie material.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2011

It's one of those rare made-in-Hollywood couplings that transcends the ordinary stuff of movies, like plot and sense and credibility.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 2, 2011

Fast-paced and fabulously fake, Friends With Benefits is the Red Bull of romantic comedies, unapologetically delivering a hyperactive, synthetic buzz.

| Aug 2, 2011

Kunis and Timberlake achieve the trickier feat of looking just as happy hanging out as they do sucking face, and when the clichs inevitably come rolling in, they feel earned rather than like a cop-out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2011

Friends with Benefits is fast, allusive, urban, glamorous -- clearly the Zeitgeist winner of the summer.

| Jul 25, 2011

The final third of the movie is a maudlin, irritating and, worst of all, slow-moving bore.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2011

"Friends With Benefits" is often uproariously and profanely funny, and anchored in high-spirited performances from its central duo, who are well matched as comic foils if oddly lacking in erotic electricity.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2011