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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMuch like the book, the plot is essentially a wisp, and Byrne is far too luminous for her sad-sack role. But Juliet still feels winning; the small, sweet grace note on a familiar melody.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt’s everything a mainstream rom-com should be but no longer is — literate, unpredictable, full of bustling tangents.
- 75The Film StageDan MeccaThe Film StageDan MeccaThere is a quality to these performances and an earnestness to the filmmaking that’s more than enough to recommend.
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s a winsome screwball love story that grows on you and takes you somewhere charming.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJuliet, Naked never truly achieves comic lift-off. Instead, it bumps around from one mild laugh, awkward encounter and bewildering decision to another without ever building up an exhilarating head of steam.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonRose Byrne is appealing as a sympathetic, patient person finally sensing she deserves more from her life. But for a film that critiques men’s inability to let go of childish things, this cutesy adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel feels a bit like a fantasy version of how adulthood really is.
- 50The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodSadly, even with the contributions of four screenwriters and the still underrated talents of Byrne...it simply doesn’t work.
- 50Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithThe film is loaded with inconsequential detours and questionable and inconsistent character psychology as it stumbles awkwardly to its foregone conclusion.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichWelding the flow and logic of a romantic comedy to the faintly ridiculous soul of a melodrama, the film is never clear about whose story its telling, or what it might want for them.
- 40The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanIt’s unfortunate that Byrne’s offering such a tremendous performance in a film that is, to put it as bluntly as possible, so very dumb.