“Ruby Sparks,” in all its schmaltzy tenderness, is in reality a case study of the dangers of idealizing a person, and containing that person’s whole individuality based on one’s idea of perfection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2024

How empowered would you feel if you knew that whatever you wrote could immediately be physically realized? Would you tempt fate knowing that you could always go back and edit it, or would you try to try to stay true to your own inner core values?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2022

The setup may be ancient in origin, but the treatment is sophisticated, beguiling, insightful, and brimming with charm.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 20, 2022

Ten years after its release, Ruby Sparks remains one of the best films of 2012.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 27, 2022

Ruby Sparks, though it often tries the viewer's patience (sometimes intentionally, sometimes not), examines the dramatic fallout of this clash in an impressive way.

| Mar 10, 2021

Ruby Sparks is an innocuous, forgettable place-holder: it contains appealing performers and characters pleasant to watch.

| Feb 28, 2021

Ruby Sparks will make you want to fall in love the right way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

RUBY SPARKS is a romantic comedy with a subversive tone behind its concept and some sharp satirical bite.

| Feb 13, 2020

Watch the sparks fly with a new timeless classic, Ruby Sparks.

| Nov 27, 2019

Ruby Sparks gets its spark from Kazan. After being mostly a bit player in a handful of films, the 29-year-old actress shows she is more than capable of stepping into lead roles. She's also not too bad at screenwriting as well.

| Apr 11, 2019

All in all, this is just an intelligent, creative, well-acted gem.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 9, 2018

Ruby Sparks zips along thanks to quality writing and odd-ball performances - Kazan, in particular, looks set for a very bright future indeed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Screenwriter/actress Zoe Kazan shows signs of potential, but she fluffs up Sparks instead of examining its darker elements.

| Original Score: C | Jan 26, 2018

Ruby Sparks is a snazzy and thought-provoking debut.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2017

It doesn't not work-there's too much genuinely great stuff going on.

| Sep 11, 2017

Although the movie stumbles at the ending -- it becomes both disappointingly predictable and puzzling in the final few frames -- it is such an appealingly uncommon rom-com that is still worth meeting Ruby Sparks.

| Oct 25, 2016

Ruby Sparks is a good little cute 'n' clever (dare I call it... quirky?) movie, and it's possible that the degree to which I'm frustrated with it is solely due to the fact that I hoped for something different, something more.

| Sep 20, 2016

"Ruby Sparks" is a uniquely palatable concoction - part Woody Allen, part John Hughes, part Rod Serling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2016

There's no shortage of interesting ideas submerged here. Too bad it's such a slog to sit through.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Ruby Sparks is an honest, entertaining, and insightful picture that, despite a very 'filmy' happy ending, offers up an amusingly frank deconstruction of the 'dream girl' idea that pervades much modern fiction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2013