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All About Steve Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 38

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Manages to be both toothless and tasteless in its satire of TV news sensationalism.

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• 38

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  The screenplay by Kim Barker requires Bullock to behave in an essentially disturbing way that began to wear on me. It begins as merely peculiar, moves on to miscalculation and becomes seriously annoying.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  A viewer is challenged to guess what the filmmakers thought they were doing. A 1930s screwball comedy with a modern sensibility? A misguided valentine to those who march to the beat of a different drummer?

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• 25

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  A creepy, humiliating ''comedy,'' playing to Bullock's worst instincts for demonstrating the lovability of women who don't fit in.

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• 20

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  A dippy clunker like All About Steve has no purpose other than as a challenge: If you laden a usually charming A-lister with a thoroughly off-putting, unhinged character, can she claw her way to likability? The short answer is no. The long answer is, what in the world was Bullock, who also produced the movie, thinking?

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• 20

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  The concept of an intelligent woman is apparently so exotic to Ms. Bullock and her director, Phil Traill, that they frantically kook the character up, as if female smarts were a kind of disability. This being a contemporary big-studio release, I suppose it is.

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• 10

  out of 100

  VarietyBrian Lowry

  Sitting through the picture is an endurance test.

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