"The Other Woman," due out Friday, receives rave reviews from critics! Find out what they are saying about Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz, and Kate Upton!
This comedy involves Diaz as Carly, finding out her man is married to Mann's character Kate.
San Francisco Gate praises Mann as Kate King, calling her character "the movie's best creation," and the actress "a revelation."
"If you see "The Other Woman," watch Mann and don't take her for granted," it reads. "Watch what she's doing - or rather how much she's doing simultaneously. Her line readings seem intuitive and spontaneous, guided by some unerring sense of comic timing. Yet, while nailing every laugh, she ropes in aspects of the character's history, too. The pain of her betrayal. Her anger at letting herself get talked out of having children. This is the ideal comic synthesis - all the laughs on the surface, but with all the pain underneath."
Diaz also receives compliments from the publication. They refer to her character Carly Whitten as "confident" and "queenly."
The film, however, generates mixed feedback based on the quality of comedy in screenwriting.
"Making erratic use of its promising central premise as well as of its uniformly attractive cast, this slick package is nowhere near as good as it could have been but will still hold considerable appeal for female audiences who will enjoy a good joke at the expense of a cheatin' man, while men may not mind going along as well just to check out Kate Upton, this generation's 10," The Hollywood Reporter writes.
NPR echoes these claims, dubbing the film "when terrible movies happen to funny actresses."
"It's deliciously, almost poetically, perhaps polemically depressing," it states. "The Other Woman is no charming film about lady buddies, the way they'd like it to be, but it is a gift-wrapped boon to critics who have been looking for an opportunity to explain the miserable circumstances in which genuinely talented comic actresses - even powerful ones, even proven ones, even ones doing the absolute best they possibly can - still very often find themselves."
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