Rather less fun than a badly executed coronary bypass.

| Jan 26, 2011

Who ever thought that Ron Howard could make a cult film? This movie is a mess, but it's an intelligent and affecting mess.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2011

But it's just way too uneven, too masochistically sexist and startlingly homophobic for the good to outweigh the bad. It is a movie I can appreciate for the attempt but roast over the coals thanks to its execution.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 21, 2011

Vaughan's behaviour is so crass and silly as to lack credibility.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 21, 2011

A comedy without laughs, and a drama without tension.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 21, 2011

This collapses into comic mayhem, falling-out-of-trees slapstick, snore-bore misunderstandings and a sizeable distance between laughs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2011

A suspenseless marathon of misguided male loyalty. Nothing's funny. Nothing's real.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2011

Pious, intense and often hectoringly implausible, the movie runs on empty while making loud "vroom-vroom" sounds.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2011

Junk-food cinema in its most elementary form. If you're lucky you'll have forgotten everything about this film by the time you leave the building.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 20, 2011

The tone flits, sometimes uncomfortably, from Vaughn-fuelled laugh-fest to relationship drama, but it's a winner compared to many of the clunkly comedies out there.

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

It lacks faith in its story, characters and audience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2011

Perhaps the late Blake Edwards could have found a balance between slapstick and psychodrama, but Ron Howard can't get the pacing right, and Allan Loeb's script is even wordier than the one he wrote for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

| Jan 18, 2011

Cack-22.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2011

Ends with 20 minutes of apologies, a round robin of regret that downshifts the film's sputtering energy into park.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 16, 2011

The filmmakers just don't know what to do about the ladies.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 15, 2011

The film is hardly a disaster. It has some effective comedy and a sense of reality but it's not the kind of engrossing package that Ron Howard usually delivers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2011

Bromances being what they are, Vince's sharp pang of disappointment might have been worth pursuing but, Ron Howard being who he is, not a chance.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 14, 2011

Let's have a toast for Vince Vaughn, shall we?

| Original Score: B- | Jan 14, 2011

Can we ever truly know someone? Can we even answer the question? Probably not, but The Dilemma gets credit for trying.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2011

Torn between establishing itself as a bromantic comedy or a relationship potboiler, the movie meets the requirements of neither. It is unsatisfying in general.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 14, 2011