 Few critics appear to have been attracted by Laws of Attraction, starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore. Megan Lehmann in the New York Post writes that "Brosnan is impossibly suave; Julianne Moore is faultlessly lovely. But the heat they generate together couldn't spark a Boy Scout's campfire." Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News agrees. "More chemistry between the leads would have helped. But Laws of Attraction still would have had a tough case making a jury believe these two unlikable characters belong together, except as a way to take them out of circulation," she writes. A.O. Scott in the New York Times concludes that there's not much in the film to lift it "above the cautious banality of a midseason replacement sitcom." Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe also pans the film, but notes, "I saw more than one woman turn to her friend on the way out of the theater and say, "It was cute." In other words, if you tolerated the D-grade screwball comedy of Ally McBeal, then the D-grade screwball afoot here might hit the spot." But in the New York Observer, Rex Reed takes a swipe at his colleagues in his review, in which he calls the movie "a slick, lushly appointed romantic comedy which will not appeal to ... critics desperately trying to prove how young and hip they are, but which does provide an element of the one word that has disappeared from the world of movies. Remember the word 'entertainment?'" |
