Contains the occasional barb -- mainly from Kyra Sedgwick, who steals the film as Roberts' tart-tongued sister. But Roberts herself is a drip, and it's a dull story.

| Mar 29, 2024

The film, though not unentertaining, keeps on backtracking, sentimentalising and not quite getting to grips with its subject matter.

| Mar 29, 2024

Unfortunately, with the exception of Sedgwick's spirited monopoly on one-liners, all this happens not only with unrelating meandering mundanity and a drab performance from Roberts, but also with the addition of a [pointless] subplot.

| Mar 29, 2024

You'll be talking about this film all right when you come out -- about how numbingly dreadful it is.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 28, 2024

[Julia Roberts and Gena Rowlands] are treated disgracefully by the men in their lives, yet they still seem curiously forgiving. Mind you, it is set in the Deep South, which always appears stuck in a time warp.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2024

The humanity is spread around with a quirky, generous hand, reason enough to distinguish this quiet, low-tech comedy in a season of big-bang juvenilia.

| Feb 16, 2018

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

A few stray moments of wit mired amidst a low-key and sleep-inducing presentation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2004

Dull, dumb and listless.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2004

Horrible "romantic comedy." Great message for the ladies: Forgive your cheating husband because that's the best you can do.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 14, 2003

Focuses on the personal renewal of a woman after the break-up of her marriage.

| Aug 29, 2002

The script by Callie Khouri is somewhat disjointed in structure.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2002

An especially painful letdown

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2001

Something to Talk About is at its best when Khouri's juicy script is adroitly mixing comedy and pathos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2001

Something to Talk About never goes bad, though it does get corny in places, and it hits a couple of dull patches near the finish.

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

The ending is still pat, with lots of reasons for optimism, but Something is not as neatly -- or falsely -- resolved as most Hollywood films.

| Jan 1, 2000