Rotten
Perhaps the filmmakers intended to enhance the solipsistic nature of the situation, but the effect is the impression of simple incompetence.
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Overview
Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s imagination--someone she dreamed up out of bits and pieces of Leonard, a somewhat bland man with whom she had a blind date months earlier. Meanwhile, we meet Leonard, and learn that he too has an imaginary lover, whom he has fashioned after the attractive attributes of Nellie. When the two characters come together again, they are forced to compare and contrast their ideal—but, sadly, nonexistent--partners, with their flesh and blood counterparts. The question is, will Nellie choose the man on her mind over the man in her arms?
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Rotten
The Man on Her Mind, a mirthless, stagy romantic comedy about a pair of New York loners, isn't so much a story as a threadbare concept - a one-liner, really. An old, used-up one at that.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
Ping-Ponging dialogue and arch pop-lite refrains strain to delineate portraits of insular, articulate and bourgeois neurosis.
Andy Webster, New York Times
Fresh
How do we know when we're truly living authentic lives, or have fully given ourselves over to passion and trust with another? It wouldn't occur to most romantic comedies to ask those questions. "The Man On Her Mind" answers them.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Rotten
The Man on Her Mind, a belabored, un-whimsical romantic comedy, is a case study of what can go wrong when adapting a stage play into a movie.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
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