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(1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1   4/5 "played so amiably that you barely notice how prickly its barbs are until they have dug right in."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel D "I found it incredibly challenging to get excited about Reitman's vision, especially when his satiric targets are exceedingly stale, toothless, and some way too cutesy for a film that looks to draw blood."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf C "Reitman's inability to pay off on any of the film's skeletal sub-plots leaves Aaron Eckhart holding the narrative bag even if the capable actor carries the movie on his brawny shoulders like an obsolete Atlas."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The M.O.D. Squad's honesty seems refreshing, and in this is also provides sharp contrast with film's other fall guys (and they are legion)."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "...a pleasant enough way to kill 92 minutes (although one has to imagine that Buckley's book packed more of a punch than this)."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "In the end, all the pic has left to peddle is its own amoral cleverness."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "The film works, sometimes brilliantly, at seriously exposing the flaws and hypocrisy within American government and business."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Una sátira inteligente, oportuna, ambigua y bien actuada, pero mucho menos graciosa y menos polémica de lo que prometía."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "A straight-faced dark satire.... Confident, razor-sharp comedy."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Reveling in politically incorrect humor, Reitman takes no prisoners in his debut feature that tackles everything from political hypocrisy to baby seals."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 3.5/4 "Pocas cosas son más estimulantes para un cinéfilo que encontrar diálogo inteligente y fluido en una obra cinematográfica. Es como el buen vino para el catador. Thank You For Smoking lo tiene en abundancia."   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena B "Though it soft-pedals the venom and comes across more as adolescently smart-*** rather than truly abrasive, it's still amusing."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A snappy satire about smoking, corporate shenanigans, and the spin that keeps everything rolling along in these amoral realms."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Despite its many strengths, Thank You for Smoking hovers around mediocrity, and its lasting impression is like a puff of smoke that is dissipated by a strong gust of wind."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/5 "It makes no apologies and takes no prisoners; this is a film, after all, in which the hero is the chief lobbyist for Big Tobacco."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3.5/4 "Jason Reitman's wickedly droll and irreverent comedy is a politically incorrect breath of fresh air."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "[Tends] to overstate itself -- both in its concerns and its humor. Eckhart, though, consistently brings the movie to the viewer's level."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 4/5 "Perhaps the film's greatest success is in its ability to have us fall so madly in love with such a morally reprehensible lead character."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi B "delivers a breath of fresh air to the big screen--92 minutes of quality satire"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit "Thank You For Smoking rises to the challenge, finding humor in the most unexpected places. Like Nick Naylor, Thank You For Smoking wears a big grin on its face."   Light Views   John Larsen "You don't expect this kind of thing from a comedy, unless it was made by the Coen brothers."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "No lungs were harmed in the making of this movie...nobody smokes onscreen. "   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards 2.5/5 "click for full review [Greek]"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4.5/5 "Go see it - reward the studios for doing it right."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3/5 "Thank You for Smoking is as attention grabbing and superficial as Chicago's razzle-dazzle. Billy Flynn would be so proud."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner 4.0/4.0 "... a real-life comedic drama that doesn't preach so much as it encourages you to think for yourself lest you be bamboozled like the rest of the flock."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3/5 "I'd be more apt to label Thank You for Smoking as an anti-lobbyist movie, but the filmmakers really only take shots at the one side of the lobby."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "Aaron Eckhart is fleet of foot and prolific with patter as the aptly named Naylor, but his high wire act ultimately cannot hide the fact that writer/director Jason Reitman's feature debut is as glib as Naylor's tongue."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "Eckhart is dazzling as a born phony almost brought low by believing his own lies, and he's matched at every turn by a stellar supporting cast."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh B- "Bolstered by outrageous humor, Thank You for Smoking grazes the main players and bystanders discussing national welfare from their own self-interest."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 6/10 "THANK YOU FOR SMOKING is really better as an essay on the gentle art of spin and of argument than it is as a story."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 3.5/4 "Thank You For Smoking looks for laughs in a topic that is (literally) deadly serious. It finds them, and at the same time it also finds meaning."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan A- "The screenplay crackles with intelligence and insight, not just about the workings of Washington, but also about friends, parenting, work, tough choices, paying the mortgage, and, of course freedom and personal responsibility."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/4 "Tediously subscribes to a cover-your-*** school of social comedy in which everyone and everything prove fair game for ridicule."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "When it is funny, it is really funny."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "Superb acting and a willingness to be completely politically incorrect make the film work brilliantly."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "Its true strengths [go] beyond the easy jokes: asking why someone might choose to do what Naylor does and how they can look at themselves in the mirror each morning."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "Refreshingly irreverent and briskly comic."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C+ "Thank You for Smoking tries very hard but fails to succeed in creating a biting satire."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford A "... a sly, smart and very funny caricature of corporate politics and image culture."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "A buzzworthy proclamation about an individual's freedom to choose, even if that choice we make is the wrong one."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "The picture is obviously a satire, but it has no sharpness, no sense of daring."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 8/10 "Wryly irreverent, this cynical comedy about a tobacco lobbyist is a merciless smoke screen."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 3/4 "Light on the contemporaneous insight, it is instead, like Inside Man, doing the you-Nietzsche/it- Abyss polka."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3.5/4 "This film about cigarettes is addictive as the substance and much more fun. It's hard to believe that you could have compassion for someone who shills for Big Tobacco."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 8/10 Read review   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1