10 Items or Less: Critic Reviews

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Brad Silberling's new movie has nothing to prove, and not all that much to say, but its modesty and good humor make it hard to resist.

10 Items or Less is a good-natured but failed experiment in meeting cute -- indie-movie style.

It's a sweet, calculated two-hander starring someone you know very well and someone you've never heard of but probably should...

10 Items or Less adds up to zilch.

Every potentially worthwhile or amusing moment in writer-director Brad Silberling's 10 Items or Less could be told in 10 minutes or less, with credits included.

It's just a little film that strives to be likable, and is less so than it might have been.

The film is brief, thin and anecdotal. Yet at its heart is a loving look at an artist at work, and that artist is Morgan Freeman.

So often the bearer of gravitas and dignity, Freeman shows up with a smirk on his face and a song in his heart

Silberling demonstrates an unerring ear for the natural, often discomfiting rhythm of two strangers tentatively forging a connection.

An amiable demonstration of how two charismatic actors and a relaxed writer-director (Brad Silberling) can squeeze an enjoyable movie out of practically nothing...

The fact that 10 Items has a 72-minute playing time before credits (containing the seemingly obligatory outtake montage) only points to how slight it really is.

...Strictly remainder-bin material.

The bare-boned simplicity of 10 Items or Less is more a strength than a liability.

Ten Items or Less is not landmark cinema nor is it deeply thought-provoking, but it's smart, funny, knowledgeable about life and people, and a crowd-pleaser.

Not really worth checking out.

Slight and wispy, it's a film that could only work with the gracious presence of someone like Morgan Freeman , who delivers an amiably laid-back performance.

Silberling has shot what feels like the first home movie to get a national release; it's too cute to criticize for anything other than its fluff.

While Freeman and Vega are mildly entertaining, the story is too safe and precious to elicit anything more than a passing sense of amusement.

A Hollywood hotshot played by Morgan Freeman, befriends a supermarket cashier just so he can get familiar enough with acting like somebody poor, to get into character for his next movie, and the effort fails miserably.

This is a dazzling piece of character study, set to a breezy, charming tone.

filled with tiny moments that are instantly amusing, then immediately forgotten when the movie's over.