The dialogue is terribly forced, the acting is exaggerated, and the characters are excessively fake.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Cute and charming enough to pass for a matinee date.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

WHEN IN ROME. A gift from the comic gods themselves.

| Nov 6, 2019

Fun and girly are key adjectives in this movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2017

My kind of romantic comedy. It's funny, a bit silly and doesn't try to set the new standard for romance in the genre. It's exactly what you expect, but in a good way.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 7, 2013

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Most of the troubles come from the painfully unfunny shenanigans of Beth's magic-stricken admirers.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 5, 2011

When in Rome never delves deep into anything, but whisks us through the conventions of romantic comedies so quickly there's barely time to groan.

| Aug 15, 2011

| Original Score: D | May 6, 2011

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

When in Rome is an insipid waste; every ounce of potential has been steadfastly turned away from in order to make a safe little piece of clowning.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Mar 10, 2011

[Bell] carries a classic presence and charm that is tough not to like. Yet, at the same time, she does so with a little spunk and sass.

| Dec 23, 2010

...we are expected to suspend our disbelief and accept that the adorable Kristen Bell needs some sort of crackpot magic spell to attract suitors.

| Original Score: 77/100 | Jul 3, 2010

You know from the start of Mark Steven Johnson's silly, sunny romcom how it's going to end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2010

Number of record-scratch jokes? Three. Number of walk-into-a-lamppost gags? Two. Number of laughs? Take a wild guess.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 30, 2010

Despite its over-the-top zaniness, this romantic comedy manages to keep us entertained with its starry cast and a nutty plot. If only the filmmakers had resisted the urge to exaggerate both the humour and the sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2010

This Italian-themed romcom is not quite the most unspeakably-patronising-to-Italy film of all time. That prize belongs to the musical Nine, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. But it runs a very close second.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2010

All you need to know about When In Rome is that it was written by David Diamond and David Weissman, who perpetrated the atrocity that was the Robin Williams-John Travolta 'comedy' Old Dogs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2010

Ladies, here's a chick-flick best enjoyed with your eyelids actually glued together.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2010