The two stars may be great pals in life, but there's little magic in their on-screen partnership.

| Mar 6, 2018

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's sort of like two baseball teams going out to the parking lot to play the ninth inning of a tied ballgame, then coming back onto the field to announce the score.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's almost impossible to believe that the director, John Schlesinger, was once the sure hand behind Midnight Cowboy. Did he do this one by telephone?

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's so weirdly acted, shot, edited, directed, written and scored you can't believe it's happening -- though, on a gut level, it is enjoyable in the way that certain forms of masochism are enjoyable.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Madonna's charisma as a personality has never translated particularly well to the big screen.

| Jan 1, 2000

There hasn't been a Hollywood 'message' movie as smug or cheesy as The Next Best Thing in quite a while.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Terminally slow-moving.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

I wouldn't call what [Madonna] does acting; it's more like vogue posing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A dismal film.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Madonna still cannot act.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

When one of an alleged romantic movie's principal actors is basically just reading lines, it doesn't do much for chemistry.

| Jan 1, 2000

She's awful. But to be fair, so is everything else about the movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A pleasing but mindless diversion that goes down well with buttered popcorn and a large Coke.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This movie remains full of high Hollywood cliches.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Madonna has presence and grace, but her lines come out as if they've been practiced too many times in front of the mirror (in a quasi-British accent, no less).

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

John Schlesinger can't get a credible performance out of Madonna, he wastes Lynn Redgrave and Ileana Douglas, and he fails to locate the charm that Everett brought to Wedding.

| Jan 1, 2000