How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Good picture and sound.....But "How to Lose Friends" is a farcical comedy....challenging for the gifted actress.....the film never catches its stride.....Unfortunately, her only big scene involves a drunken evening ending with much retching, which is neither funny.... ... Full Review

As this is a new production it's not surprising that there are no problems with hiss or distortion and overall, while not the most aggressive mix you've ever heard, the movie sounds very good. How To Lose Friends & Alienate People does a good job of mixing up elements of the traditional romantic comedy with the type of off the wall antics that have made Simon Pegg one of the brightest comedic actors to hit the screen in the last decade or so. ... Full Review

But after all the setting up of Sidney as obnoxious über-nerd, director Robert Weide ... Full Review

killing a cute dog tend to work against the grain of good comedies, not for them.....The English-style humor we are presented with is slapstick, but more awkward than it is funny;....The film has great appeal in the development of the unlikely impassioning friendship between Sidney Young and fellow journalist Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst).....Pegg and Dunst both play their parts exceptionally well, and Pegg's comically accommodating face makes him visibly fitted for his role at every turn..... ... Full Review

The diasters that ensued are the core of his generally pretty funny chronicle How to Lose Friends and Alienate People , here thinly disguised as a fictional movie comedy. This is a film that's both enormous fun for insiders and a great romp if you know nothing at all about the world of the great glossies. ... Full Review

Based on the memoir by Toby Young, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People is inspired by the British journalist's own disastrous stint at Vanity Fair, and there's clearly a germ of truth to some of the office exchanges. But Gillian Anderson's iron PR lady doesn't take his lack of social skills personally. ... Full Review

There are a few bright moments punctuating HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE based the memoir of the same name by Toby Young. As for any revelations about the hollowness of fame or the emptiness of success on someone else's terms, this flick seems to think it is the first cinematic effort to have noticed that sort of thing. ... Full Review

If it has a nerd's passion, though, it lacks narrative focus. This documentary about eight young American basketball players - brought together for one special, crème de la crème game in New York - is dominated by a booming, nonstop hip-hop soundtrack (and excellent it is too). ... Full Review

And Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News writes, "The film can be quite funny and maintains a devilish but fair outlook on high-end celebrity journalism. Ruthe Stein in the San Francisco Chronicle regards the movie as "a sharp-witted satire of celebrity journalism and has much to recommend it. ... Full Review

Some will complain that the film isn't as funny as the book. So, when Toby asked me what I thought of the film, I plucked up the courage and did the thing we expect our friends to do: I lied and said it was really great. ... Full Review