...the conclusion feels borrowed from Woody Allen's oeuvre... I suspect [Anand] Tucker had Annie Hall in mind.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 19, 2021

Danes and Schwartzman brilliantly perform against the icky subtext of their not-so-cute meet. Jeremy works because he doesn't appear to have an agenda.

| May 9, 2020

Steve Martin's script sneers at the vanity of fake LA girls and their plastic surgery. He is in no position to sneer.

| Jan 17, 2018

For most women, finding a pair of black gloves on their doorstep would signal "Boston Strangler" rather than "man of my dreams!" and it is this sense of unintentional creepiness that asphyxiates Shopgirl.

| Sep 26, 2017

A glum love story.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 14, 2017

Meant to be bewitchingly graceful, instead comes off as half-asleep

| Sep 1, 2009

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

I'm not entirely sure how it will play to a large audience, but it might have enough charm and wit, with a dash of complicated romance, to keep one entertained.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 21, 2007

Hasn't the brightness of a romantic comedy nor the tristesse of melodrama.

| Feb 22, 2007

Claire Danes has a gravitas and grace to her that hearkens back to starlets of the 1930s and '40s.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2006

Rather than being a labeled a romantic comedy, Shopgirl is more of a coming-of-age drama

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 10, 2006

It's L.A. as it is today, brooding, at times thoughtful, frustrating, and populated by souls like and completely unlike Mirabelle Buttersfield.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2006

Cutesy but never cute, syrupy but never sweet, sexual but never erotic.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 4, 2006

The filmmakers put a good number of sweet, tender, appealing gestures into it...yet the movie comes off leaving one vaguely disappointed.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 23, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Desperta no espectador um sentimento de agradvel melancolia, como aquele que experimentamos quando ouvimos uma melodia triste da qual gostamos muito.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2006

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 13, 2006

This movie nails some of the truths about the L.A. dating scene that most other movies don't go near.

| Jan 4, 2006

A horrible film bred from the isolation of a man at the top

| Dec 13, 2005