Heigl is said to have fallen out with Apatow since the making of Knocked Up. Maybe she should reconnect with him.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2009

The film is desperate to be edgy, but its attempts at adult humour are woefully misjudged.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 11, 2009

The ugly truth about this insipid romcom is that Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are entirely wasted.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 11, 2009

It's not as risqu as it wishes it were, nor as likable as it should be. Butler's rarely been better-cast, but the material's too patchy to support him .

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

We're left with a few giggles and the option to be offended by the gender stereotypes - if we can be bothered.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

By the end, you actually want these two cardboard cutouts to get together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2009

There is, in fact, a spark of chemistry between Heigl and Butler: it's testimony to the ineptitude that the film itself acts as such a wet blanket.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2009

A romantic comedy with a glacier where its heart should be.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2009

In the age of neurotic screen hygiene each film must have an anti-Messiah who takes on the dirt of all. Elsewhere, wit-free dialogue combines with dust-free scenery and foible-free characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

What I hated most of all was the script , which smears these so-called insights into the sex wars with pointless (and witless) crudity. More depressing still, it's written by three women.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2009

It's actually hard to tell who's less likeable in this ugly, unfunnily vulgar battle of the sexes: Heigl's prim control freak or Butler's dim sexist.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2009

The jokes are so few and far between that you can see them backing into position up to 15 minutes in advance - like a ten-ton truck making a bad-gag delivery.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2009

The comic highlight is when Heigl wears a pair of vibrating pants to a business dinner.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2009

I think it's safe to say that the concerns about sexism in cinema that Heigl voiced so ardently after her career-making turn in Knocked Up have ebbed in direct proportion to the increases in her subsequent paychecks.

| Jul 28, 2009

Aside from being relational science-fiction, The Ugly Truth feels about 150 years out of date -- or it would, if the script weren't so clinically dependent on the topics of masturbation and genitalia and raunch.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 24, 2009

Despite the fact that it swims in a veritable ocean of romantic comedy clichs, The Ugly Truth should manage to captivate and charm men and women alike.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2009

Ugly is, indeed, the word for any comedy that manages to insult both its cast and audience with nearly every scene.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 24, 2009

The ugly truth about The Ugly Truth is the fact that -- funny though it is -- it could have been a whole lot funnier.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2009

Romantic comedies are an increasingly debased genre, but few recent Hollywood products have been anywhere near as crass and contrived as The Ugly Truth.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 24, 2009

Until that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable.

| Jul 24, 2009