Feels more like a failed television pilot than a feature film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

As a statement on modern relationships it's muddled but it does deliver enough laughs and romance to make it a pleasing enough Valentine's Day diversion.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

What a depressing assemblage of contemptible yet physically attractive people.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 5, 2020

No, nothing about this world seems real, yet somehow this energetic subversion of typical rom-coms manages to be more relatable and entertaining than it has any right to be.

| Apr 3, 2020

How to Be Single is a fluffy comedy at times that does have some depth to its script.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2020

No amount of "hey, at least they seem to be trying" can excuse the phoned-in plotting and prefab, contrived wish-fulfillment that passes for a screenplay.

| Jan 13, 2020

Blending the clichéd with the new, How To Be Single is a surprise but not a revelation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2019

"How to Be Single" is short of phenomenal, eliciting thoughtful themes only with the ingredients for greatness, not the recipe.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 5, 2019

How to Be Single desperately wants you to think that it is somehow different than its more traditional counterparts, but despite a few decorative trappings, the film remains a formulaic rom-com in subversive clothing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 20, 2019

A film with plenty of flaws but also fleeting moments of insights into relationships that make it more fun than I was expecting.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2019

Still, for a movie that's built largely on rom-com tropes, it's actually surprising how much [the characters] avoid cliché.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Dec 25, 2018

Unfortunately, How to be Single is annoyingly jittery and woefully generic. The characterizations all feel synthetic and the contrived dilemmas for how these young women cope with men of uncertainty, reluctance and absurdity fall flat

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

A likable, though ultimately vanilla romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 30, 2018

It feels like a season of a generic soap was shoved together and edited for time.

| Aug 27, 2018

It doesn't go for as much low-brow humor as you would expect judging from the trailer, but instead likes to use all of its intertwining characters and stories to again, just explore the different lifestyles, benefits, and freedoms of being single.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2017

Director Christian Ditter paints a pretty but hollow, hetero-normative and infuriating portrait of singledom.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017

How To Be Single struggles to say anything new about the modern dating game in New York City.

| Oct 25, 2017

As much as you can feel Single trying to break rom-com stereotypes, ultimately it can't shed the formula.

| Oct 17, 2017

Might I suggest an alternate title for "How to Be Single"? "Typecasting: The Movie!"

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 31, 2016

Johnson is an appealing lead and although the message is mixed and some of the scenes are awkwardly badly written, it holds together fine over two hours and there are funny moments.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2016