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For a Good Time, Call... Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  For a Good Time, Call... tells the tender tale of two roommates who team up to launch a phone-sex line. Whatever their virtues or flaws, each of these movies makes the dirtiest episode of "Sex and the City" look like Doris Day fluff.

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• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyDennis Harvey

  Doesn't rise much above sitcom level in material or execution, but provides enough laughs and goodwill to be disarmingly entertaining.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  Lauren and Katie aren't defined by their attitudes toward men; they're defined by being fu--ing funny and awesome.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesStephen Holden

  Doesn't aspire to be more than a broad, sloppy, old-fashioned sitcom with a sexy gimmick. But it is quite funny.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore

  A feel-good raunch-com whose dirty-talk plot comes from a convincingly female perspective instead of feeling like cut-and-paste Apatow.

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• 63

  out of 100

  Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips

  Even if the film should be retitled "For a Fairly Good Time, Call ..." at least we're not back on the couch with another variation on the same old group of arrested-development young adult males, hanging on to their adolescence with as much determination as their marijuana intake allows.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  The performances by Miller and Graynor are high-spirited enough that you yearn to see them in worthier material. The potential is there. If there's anything more seductive to Manhattanites than sex, it's a cheap apartment overlooking Gramercy Park.

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• 50

  out of 100

  USA TodayScott Bowles

  Does its share of teasing, but amounts to nothing serious.

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