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Boston Globe Mark Feeney
The biggest problem One for the Money faces is trying to have it both ways: gritty-ethnic inner city vs. girly-girly comic.
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
An attempt to inaugurate a new movie franchise, something that might appeal to women and mystery fans. This is a perfectly sound ambition, but the movie, directed by Julie Anne Robinson from a script by Stacy Sherman, Karen Ray and Liz Brixius, is so weary and uninspired that it feels more like an exhausted end than an energetic beginning.
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The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Starring a painfully awkward Katherine Heigl, One for the Money mostly resembles a failed television pilot.
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Movieline
As played by Heigl, Stephanie is mind-blowingly charmless.
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Los Angeles Times
Most depressing is the spectacle of Debbie Reynolds in the de rigueur Betty White role - Hollywood having relegated seniors to the category of adorably "outrageous" while it caricatures single women as desperate updates on romance-novel heroines.
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It will have you groaning between yawns.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Listlessly directed by Julie Anne Robinson (Miley Cyrus's The Last Song) from a script written by a trio of writers (Stacy Sherman, Karen Ray and Liz Brixius), One for the Money is tepidly glib throughout.
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New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
I guess I can't call the movie sexist as it was largely produced, directed and written by women. So I'll settle for calling it dull, corny and amateurish instead.
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
She's (Heigl) disastrously miscast as a character beloved by fans of novelist Janet Evanovich.
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Everything in One for the Money rings cringingly false, from Heigl's absurd Snooki accent to Plum's romance with Joe Morelli, an Italian cop, played by faith and begorrah Jason O'Mara. To dismiss Julie Anne Robinson's direction as clueless would be a kindness.
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