Everything about it was obviously handed down from another source, and even while realizing that, you’ll probably find the result very watchable, if forgettable.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2023

...everything that could snarl up happens here; unsympathetic leads, silly scenarios, a wealth of sexual crudity and a debatable truth about men and women that ends up feeling rather...ugly...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2021

A hideously misguided attempt to marry girly chick-flick sentiment with laddish Judd-Apatow-style raunch.

| Nov 22, 2020

Choppy, inconsistent, and largely unsatisfying despite the presence of two winning performers.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Every point I am giving this film is because of Gerard Butler. He's not only extremely easy on the eyes, but he is a wonderful actor. He gives great edge and intense vulnerability to a role he could have easily phoned in.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 11, 2018

The Ugly Truth is actually a very fresh film, one that could be the start of a new genre - the R-rated romantic comedy that appeals as much to men as to women.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2018

The only surprise here is that the misogynistic screenplay was written by three females.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2016

The screenplay is written by three females, who write women like they hate them and men like they've never met a real one.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 29, 2012

The ugly truth about this film is that it may convince males out there that it's okay to be a pig.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 11, 2012

[It] attempts to be hip and edgy by featuring plenty of discussions about boy parts and girl parts and how they become friends with one another. However, the makers of this film clearly have no idea about how men and women actually interact.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2010

If all you need is a fix of puerile smut and puddle-deep romantic giggles and can't wait for the next episode of Two and a Half Men, The Ugly Truth should do the trick.

| Aug 9, 2010

The Ugly Truth has all the honesty and romance of an Axe body spray commercial.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 31, 2010

| Original Score: 1/6 | Jan 14, 2010

...there's no finesse or scarcity to lend impact to the vulgarity. It's handled with all the craftsmanship of an infant wielding an arc welder.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 6, 2009

A putative romantic comedy about the fundamental differences between men and women, it reduces both genders to emotional cripples while failing to find any humor in the situation.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 27, 2009

...a mildly diverting yet thoroughly uninvolving romantic comedy...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 14, 2009

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| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2009

As a girls'-night-out movie for those in the right frame of mind, it gets some laughs, even a few big ones. But this opposites-attract comedy is wildly uneven: There are long stretches of down time, and some of the humor is so crude it backfires.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2009

Apparently, the ugly truth is that neither sex needs or deserves respect. How romantic. The 'Sex and the City' gals would be proud.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 8, 2009

Formula can be fun, as it is here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2009