No one expects movies like this one, set as it is in the largely mythological world of fiercely competitive daily newspapering, to be realistic. But neither should they be as flaccid and unconvincing as what we are presented with here.

| Jun 17, 2014

Trouble is a sampler of the kind of roles Roberts and Nolte should play more often.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2014

Generic as its title, I Love Trouble is like a Xerox of a copy of a facsimile.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2014

Again and again, the I Love Trouble script takes us deeper and deeper into the machinations of a high-tech company when what we want to see is Nolte and Roberts outfox each other.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

Is there chemistry between Roberts and Nolte? Not really. This by-the-numbers production is more like math than chemistry.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 17, 2014

It's like the worst possible Newman-Redford vehicle: the script reduces the stars to twinkling mannequins, and their chemistry barely rises to the buddy-buddy level.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2014

You can tell that they like each other by the way they hate each other. Shakespeare may have invented the recipe, Tracy and Hepburn may have refined it, but Nolte and Roberts certainly hold their own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2014

The lack of chemistry onscreen allows the paper-thin premise to collapse in on itself, and there's very little else left to salvage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2014

Roberts and Nolte seem to go together like oil and water, and the convoluted conspiracy-crime plot keeps them a lot more occupied than us.

| Jun 17, 2014

There's a pervasive romanticism in I Love Trouble that depends on the chemistry generated by Roberts and Nolte.

| Jun 17, 2014

The running badinage of Roberts and Nolte lacks the tartness and bite that made those classic couplings and the old screwballs crackle with contentious wit.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

If you can get your head round the idea of Julia Roberts as a ruthlessly ambitious newspaper reporter, then there's plenty to enjoy in this frivolous comedy thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2014

Julia Roberts is the oddest of star commodities in Hollywood: a Lamborghini that few people know how to drive.

| Jun 17, 2014

The picture works, thanks in part to actual chemistry between Nolte and Roberts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2014

Straight out of the His Girl Friday school of newspaper romances, Trouble is anemically formulaic and completely uninspired.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2014

Not even Roberts' trademark luminescence can save this one.

| Jun 17, 2014

Slick camera work and strong chemistry between the stars are almost enough to save the picture from terminal triteness, but not quite.

| Jun 17, 2014

The goings-on seem lacking in wit and inspiration, tolerably entertaining but far from effervescent.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2007

Age difference and lack of chemistry between Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts are just two of many problems that mar this pale imitation (really pastiche) of 40s screwball comedies by Howard Hawks and George Cukor.

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 24, 2006