Critic consensus:Jennifer Lopez is as appealing as ever, but The Back-Up Plan smothers its star with unrelatable characters and a predictable plot.

Numbered reviews:1. To prep for The Back-up Plan, shed all notions of how grown-ups behave in the real world.
2. As far as entertainment goes, this is the pits, less a movie than a star-studded, big-screen screensaver.
3. ...the worst film to come out of Hollywood so far this year.
4. It's no big surprise that Lopez can still get laughs; she has a relaxed way with the camera that has mellowed and ripened over the years.
5. Although it's formulaic in the extreme, The Back-up Plan is an easygoing romantic comedy treat for fans of Jennifer Lopez.
6. Why even bother?
7. Someone involved in the making of The Back-Up Plan, a not very good and yet painless waste of time, has certainly thought through some life and love questions.
8. My only thought was to feel bad for the children being born into the world of these stupid characters.
9. It's clear within minutes where it's all going: right into the bare-chested embrace of the World's Perfect Man.
10. At the risk of sexist condescension, I'd say that being a woman -- or a woman of a certain kind, anyway -- is a crucial prerequisite for enjoying this film.


Critic consensus:Don Jon proves to be an amiable directing debut for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and a vivacious showcase for his co-star, Scarlett Johansson.

Numbered reviews:1. The fact that one can think of a movie about a guy hooked on porn as charming is high praise.
2. The screenplay is generally predictable in its story of redemption, and it doesn't have an ounce of subtlety.
3. It's difficult to rate a movie that doesn't really start until its last half hour.
4. An impressive debut as writer/director/star.
5. Don Jon has attitude, conveyed as much through the solid performances as it is through the director's unflinching approach to some complicated subjects.
6. I find it a film that's much easier to admire than actually like.
7. Joseph Gordon-Levitt has teetered on being the Next Big Thing. He's finally there with 'Don Jon,' a grownups-only movie about addiction and compulsion in which he stars. He also wrote and directed this movie about a man's obsession with pornography.
8. This is a very funny, well-written film. Unlike most romantic comedies, it is both thought-provoking and introspective.
9. Very funny and with some social commentary, "Don Jon" is an admirable first effort for Gordon-Levitt behind the camera.
10. If Don Jon does not offer a lasting détente in the war of the genders, it does smartly delineate the gap between men's and women's respective fantasy lives.


Critic consensus:A charming, quirky, and often funny comedy.

Numbered reviews:
1. Hess and Heder allow Napoleon to remain his geeky self from beginning to end, a guy who -- like his movie -- dares to be different and succeeds.
2. A giant inside joke for those who know the peculiarities of rural Idaho.
3. Funny enough that I'll refrain from describing the gags that made me laugh, lest I spoil them for you.
4. It's a quirky, fresh slice-of-life more inviting than a tater-tot pyramid.
5. It's an empty, affected experience, and a 5-minute joke stretched out to 85 of the most soul-sucking, higher-power-questioning minutes found in a movie this year.
6. We laugh at all the nerdy behavior in the movie, and there's a reason that's OK: Because, deep down, we know we are all nerds.
7. He makes Geekus Hollywoodium -- always played by someone such as Ben Stiller, whom we know to be fundamentally cool beneath his nerdy veneer -- look like the fraudulent genus we know it to be.
8. An independent take on a Hollywood tradition, undermined by its cliches but saved by its performances.
9. May be the most condescending comedy ever to imagine itself being too cool for the room.
10. This is basically a collection of hit-and-miss skits that are stumbling around in search of a story line.