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(1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 37% Rotten Page   1   B "The film is smart and, given the current state of this tired and dumbed-down genre, that's worth some extra bonus points right there."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 6/10 "Something New might very well be the first "Super-Duper Magical Caucasian" movie... a romantic drama/comedy that's more interesting in theory than in execution."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens C+ "Something New had the brains to be better than the typical romantic comedy servings; but it gives in to doubt and formula far too easily, taking the steam out of the filmmakers' ambitions."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf C- ""Something New" is a tentative baby step toward a hopefully improving cinematic dialogue about the fact of interracial relations and their acceptance in our society."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "This is new: Mike Epps plays a character with an arc."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "Sometimes as compelling as it is unoriginal. "   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 4/5 "It is a warm, friendly movie, smooth and sensual in all the right ways... What a wonderful surprise of a film."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 3/4 "Emotionally satisfying and rings exceedingly true."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "As stale as last year's canceled UPN sitcoms."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "...[an] uneven but light-hearted salt-and-pepper urban romancer...Something New is not a very apt title for this witty but familiar color-conscious love story."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "Completely artificial...a flimsy, flabby picture in which the romantic chemistry is forced, the script does nothing unexpected and the direction is slack."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "An interracial love story that effectively conveys the challenges and the delights that face couples who choose to travel this path of intimacy."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "The film is not riotous, but it is sporadically amusing, and the love affair is respectful of the characters, not fatuous."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 6/10 "Something New will have to make do with being another iteration, albeit a confidently told and color-sensual one, of a familiar story."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2/5 "The race card is played ad nauseam throughout the film"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "Kenya is such a joyless creature it requires singular suspension of disbelief to accept that Brian Kelly, the white landscape architect, would stick around. "   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Surely there will come a time when smart, talented, accomplished American women will tire of being told the reason they are unable to snag a man and wrangle a ring out of him is because of that enormous stick up their butts?"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B "The theme of racial differences, with the black family highly educated and affluent referring to the landscape architect as 'the help' adds a little freshness to a traditional when-will- she-realize- he's-her- true-love storyline."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/4 "Something New's title doesn't extend to the film's race-conscious rom-com formula."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "What we're left with is a standard romantic comedy with a few decent jungle fever jokes thrown in to spice up the formula."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar C+ "It's not my cup of tea but I'm not wearing the bull's eye it's aimed at."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/5 "Anyone who finds something new in Something New is obviously looking a whole lot closer than the movie deserves."   DVD Clinic   Scott Weinberg C+ "The experiences of a professional African American woman in a predominantly white business culture gives Something New an interesting perspective."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2/5 "Good directors can overcome clichéd writing, but Hamri plays to the level of her screenplay."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Charming and surprisingly sharp."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 2.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 1.5/4 Read review   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten  (1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 37% Rotten Page   1