The trick here is a delicate balance: Being smart without showing off, being ironic without getting mean; being funny without getting too esoteric or simplistic, and never lingering on one scene for too long or wearing out your welcome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2024

“Isn’t It Romantic” is a decent entry into the head bonk genre. It’s not a terrible movie, but it’s far from being the sharp-witted satire that it very well could have been.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Rebel Wilson takes center stage in her first real lead role in Isn’t It Romantic, a charming (some may say “beguiling”), sometimes quite clever, and ultimately pointless comedy because of its lack of conviction in seeing its message all the way through.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

It's not great... just superficially funny.

| Oct 1, 2021

A total delight.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2021

[The movie] functions on the complexity level of the grandfather paradox, where the more it tries to not be the usual romantic comedy, the more it satisfies the requirements of being one.

| Mar 22, 2021

Wilson's bubbly effervescence carries the film, as do the goofy fun, musical dance numbers...

| Feb 18, 2021

It's a hollow shell of a movie by design, which works in theory but not in execution.

| Jan 29, 2021

Even if Isn't It Romantic? doesn't reinvent the romantic comedy genre despite its genius satirization, it still provides plenty of heart.

| Oct 1, 2020

[W]hile it has a decent amount of laughs for a while, its inability to telegraph its own clich茅s leads it down a path of complacency it claims to resent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2020

A clever sendup that both criticizes and cherishes its brand. It may not break much new ground - its premise is another version of Amy Schumer's "I Feel Pretty" (2018) - but it's still an undeniably cute date movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2020

A likeable enough take-off that banks upon a mix of deprecation and earnestness in taking potshots at the conventions of the romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2020

Screenwriters Erin Cardillo, Dana Fox and Katie Silberman are mining familiar territory, and everyone in the film is playing it just broad enough, winking enough that the movie doesn't exactly qualify as razor-sharp satire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2020

There's no two ways about it, the film is what we need after decades of being force-fed illusions of romance films.

| Jul 6, 2020

They really got it... And everyone was along for the ride.

| May 20, 2020

I thought it was fun and had just a little bit of a twist.

| May 20, 2020

As funny as it is about sending up romantic comedy conventions, Isn't It Romantic also embraces what makes them so compelling.

| Jan 18, 2020

It's a deft setup for a number of clever sight and continuation gags as romcom tropes are flipped and flipped again.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 8, 2020

Rebel Wilson and Adam Devine play to their strengths and recreate the chemistry they had in the Pitch Perfect movies. They get to be their charming, goofy selves that we expect from them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2019

The big studio rom-com is back!

| Sep 18, 2019