A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Aniston comes across like an imitation of a movie star instead of the real thing. She gets less attractive as the film goes on.
– Ruthe Stein,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Insubstantial and oversweet, it still refreshes as a midsummer brain cooler.
– Susan Wloszczyna,
USA Today,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Aniston doesn't need dialogue to catch Kate's quicksilver moods. It's the sitcom lines, at the service of a contrived plot, that choke her.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2001
fresh:
[Aniston] at her best can recall young Barbra Streisand in her What's Up, Doc? days.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
[Aniston] has the rare gift of getting you to root for her in the most trying of circumstances, a quality that will stand her in good stead when she progresses to better material.