... it's one of the few romantic movies that center around an interracial relationship and keeps it real.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

Something New isn't just silly, it's an embarrassment to people who are genuinely trying to level the racial playing field in America today.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 30, 2006

Generally the story swings wildly from preachy to just plain silly. It is truly a story of missed opportunities.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2006

There's zero chemistry between the leads; for all their passionate declarations of love, you never believe they've even spoken to each other before the cameras start turning over.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2006

By and large this is a hollow, laugh-free zone paying lip service to the issue in trite, predictable fashion.

| Nov 23, 2006

It's just too bad that this half-realized concept is tethered to an utterly unconvincing, warmed-over interracial romance rooted more in Harlequin fantasy than social realism.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 16, 2006

Something New, in its endearingly daft third act, manages the neat feat of feeling sweetly inevitable rather than boilerplate predictable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2006

This is an inept and unsubtle romantic fantasy about how black people and white people don't mix.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2006

It sometimes seems at odds with itself, vacillating between a realistic presentation of the obstacles black professional women face finding a suitable mate and another bit of Hollywood fluff where their skin color is glossed over.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2006

The race card is still in play no matter what the social strata, but the message gets lost in the medium of excessive cuteness and too many contrived disagreements in dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2006

How many other movies dare to suggest that some white guys have soul, and some black guys are plain vanilla?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Hamri delivers a thoughtful, entertaining, imperfect but solidly adult movie about the inconvenient path of true love.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

The film's lack of depth as it oversimplifies the complexities of racism keep it from being anything other than a lightweight date movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 3, 2006

Something New is actually something totally unexpected: a blissfully swoony romance spiked with frank talk about race and class that nudges the plot forward but never feels forced.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Something New is a message movie and it doesn't hide that fact. But it also goes beyond the message, and that's why it works.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 3, 2006

Even when skewering the pompousness of upper-class black mobility, it's still adorable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

If February is prime time for celebrating romance and black culture, then Something New delivers a powerfully seductive two-for-the-show.

| Original Score: B | Feb 3, 2006

Something New is an observant, clever riff on the familiar problems of romance and the career gal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Something New insinuates a banal race-related subtext into its storyline.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2006

Charming and surprisingly sharp.

| Feb 3, 2006