Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
One of the better romantic comedies in the last couple of years.
– Richard Roeper,
Richard Roeper.com,
21 Jan 2011
rotten:
No Strings Attached is so palpably calculated that you know if the camera had pulled back a foot from the bed in which Portman and Kutcher were pretending to have sex, you'd have seen their agents standing by beaming: proud parents, proud pimps.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
24 Jan 2011
rotten:
The charismatic leads keep this watchable, but it's a waste of their talents.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
28 Jan 2011
fresh:
At least Portman is playing someone who is recognizably human, unlike her dancer in Black Swan.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jan 2011
fresh:
Portman can look smug in light-touch comedy, but her chemistry with Kutcher is believable (though to be fair, Kutcher is the golden retriever of male leads: blandly irresistable).