The movie doesn’t express overt racism. But its implicit whitewashing of Southern history fits neatly into very racist neo-Confederate myths.

| May 14, 2023

...fluffy, shallow but bright and easy-going, idiotic and yet hard to hate...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2021

[Reese Witherspoon's] just such a great actress.

| Jun 27, 2019

A classic tale of deception and the American Dream, this movie has everything.

| Jan 2, 2019

Witherspoon's charm keeps this movie afloat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

A great date flick and a very charming, well acted movie...

| Apr 29, 2009

Witherspoon is not immune to the bland and processed feel to this rote romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 28, 2008

...a sporadically amusing yet entirely ineffective romantic comedy that ultimately squanders an expectedly charismatic turn from star Reese Witherspoon.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 26, 2008

Watching Reese Witherspoon in "Sweet Home Alabama" is like looking at a daisy floating in a toilet: She's the best thing in it, but you wonder what she's doing there.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 23, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The tale of a down-home girl forced to choose between her two beaus has got charm and appeal to spare, but there's never much to it that you don't see coming a mile away.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2005

| Original Score: 1/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: 68/100 | Mar 16, 2004

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 68/100 | Feb 22, 2003

Fun and sweet.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 10, 2003

Mediocre is too harsh a word-this film is merely average.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

...a well-intentioned but saccharine comedy... In fact, that's its problem. It doesn't do much of anything but meet our lowest expectations.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 26, 2003