The basic elements only amount to a mildly entertaining film.

| Dec 13, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The tale of a guy who's just a victim of being a jerk, coping with the horrible curse of being good-looking.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Kutcher is a credible and potent leading man with an easy address to the camera. He carries off the movie with some style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2010

Letting things slide into a sort of low-calorie moral vacuum, Mackenzie hasn't so much nailed LA's culture of skin-deep gratification as produced an advert for it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2010

The ghosts of Shampoo, American Gigolo and even Alfie (both versions) cruelly haunt the ripe and raunchy frames of Mackenzie's Spread - another "shallow-stud-in-need-of-redemption" movie that pales in the face of its predecessors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2010

It's deeply moral soft-core porn.

| Jan 5, 2010

The very impressive Spread deserves to be a cherished gem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2010

The promising beginning deteriorates into a baffling shambles, with each character changing their entire personality at least once.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2010

Spread devolves into your predictable, well-worn morality tale, and while there are beautiful people and emotional quandries aplenty, what we're really left with is a turgid but flashy romcom.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2010

Surprisingly believable as a preening hotshot - who'd have thought it? - Ashton Kutcher is ultimately undone by a disappointingly moralistic script that can't quite allow his easy-cum, easy-go hedonist to go unpunished.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2010

It's fun when it's at its bitchiest, and Kutcher's astute performance will surprise a few people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2010

I admired the way the movie avoided the usual romantic comedy happy ending, but the film's bleakness is unlikely to win it many friends at the box office.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2010

Spread is as fluffy as you can get, while you wonder how anyone could fall for someone like Nikki who dresses like a cross between Julian Clary and a far-right thug. Ghastly.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 5, 2010

[Kutcher's] not a bad actor, in a lazy, self-conscious sort of way, but he's being propelled through a plot that has no guile, no subtlety, nothing at all, in fact, beyond a barely understood desire to punish him.

| Jan 5, 2010

As there's nothing to the central character except his supremely selfish lifestyle, when that's taken from him by the inevitable romance and redemption, it's hard to care what happens.

| Jan 5, 2010

Spread is sleazier than Tiger Woods in a zebra-print tuxedo but amid the flailing boobs and six-packs there's a fair bit of polish, probably thanks to talented young Scottish director David Mackenzie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2010

A sex comedy with plenty of sex, not enough comedy, and nowhere near enough smarts to pull off its final act attempts at Midnight Cowboy-style pathos.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2010

Allegedly a sex-com, this has moments of charm but the shallow tawdryness of the lead's life choices taints the whole film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2010