I saw this at a festival and hated it, then sat through it again a year later and decided it wasn't so bad, aside from the god-awful ending.

| Dec 18, 2006

Freundlich's intelligent, very funny take on male-female relationships manages the not inconsiderable feat of being both jaded and appealingly fresh.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2006

It's a pity, because few romcoms pull off the basically sympathetic mining of personal vanities and social embarrassment that the film manages in its opening hour.

| Sep 21, 2006

A relationship dramedy wields little power without an emotional punch. And when the theatrical (literally) climax attempts bold emotionality, one can't help but wince.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 16, 2006

David Duchonvy and Julianne Moore make an engaging double-act and an undercurrent of droll humour keeps things zipping along quite amiably for the most part.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2006

Freundlich's outstanding cast (including Garry Shandling, Eva Mendes, Ellen Barkin, Bob Balaban and James LeGros) -- his best since 1997's The Myth of Fingerprints -- glosses over miscalculations with sheer star power.

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

I wish the film were true to itself and its quartet of puzzled, struggling lovers; their collapse into sitcom idiocy felt uncomfortably close to betrayal.

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

A lot more smug and a lot less insightful than writer-director Bart Freundlich apparently assumes, and it's burdened even more by its surfeit of unsympathetic characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2006

There is a free-flowing fluidity to the performances that can't help but feel warm and authentic, the quartet at the center of this crafting beguiling and believable human portraits just screaming of reality.

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

Screenwriter and director Bart Freundlich fails to offer fresh insights into the problems of contemporary relationships, and many of his comic targets are easy and conventional.

| Original Score: C | Aug 31, 2006

There's nothing terribly wrong with this comedy about the romantic dalliances of four New Yorkers, but there's nothing terribly right about it, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2006

Trying to mimic the Woody Allen films is not a bad thing to do, but why not put a spin on it?

Full Review | Aug 21, 2006

Is this farce, drama, satire? Who knows?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 19, 2006

This comedy about two self-absorbed New York couples feels like wan Woody Allen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Trust the Man has a sketchy overall feel, as if Freundlich didn't finish thinking it through.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

As faux Woody Allen movies go, Trust the Man is one of the more diverting recent entries in the genre, with a top-drawer cast, well-chosen Manhattan locations and a sharper script than Allen himself has managed in a while.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2006

In the end, you're left feeling a little empty, as if you've been eavesdropping on a conversation in a restaurant and neglected to eat your dinner.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

The actors gamely keep up their spirits, but the male characters are too one-dimensional and the female characters too bizarrely divorced from reality to be at all engaging.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 18, 2006

If a movie that uses the word 'relationship' 7,000 times puts your teeth on edge, stay away.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2006

Opening a film with a small child straining on a toilet and talking about poop isnt just a bad idea; its an invitation to unfortunate metaphor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2006