Going Shopping: Critic Reviews

Going Shopping is sharp and funny about all the things that shopping can mean to the women who live to do it, and even to those who don't.

Going Shopping...has enough smart, knowing touches and enough easy spontaneity among its well-chosen actors to make you wish it added up to more than what it turns out to be: a flighty, motor-mouthed cinematic divertissement.

The trouble with Going Shopping is that it's clogged with personalities and styles that don't congeal.

Henry Jaglom's latest study of contemporary female obsessions among a noxious clan of West L.A. bourgeoisie is of more pathological than cinematic interest.

[Has] enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping.

Alleges support of women, yet fetishizes their objects instead of their relationships.

[Henry] Jaglom's Going Shopping is a nifty little oddity, another of his unlikely, entertaining movie hybrids.

Inadvertently reduces women to a variety of cliches, probably reinforcing many men's worst fears.

Comes as close as any film to explaining what the deal is with women and shopping.

Zeroes in on retail mania with a flimsy wire hanger of a premise.

At times movies seem rife with misogyny, yet Jaglom consistently expresses a love for women in his films.

The film is less than two hours long but feels considerably longer, thanks to a few drawn-out scenes and some clunky character drama.

Jaglom's concentrated approach serves up some insight to be sure, but the movie states its case in the first 10 minutes and then proceeds to run out of things to say, almost as quickly as the women in this movie think they've run out of things to wear.

As breezy as window-shopping and reminds us that, in both shopping and love, everyone has buyer's remorse and few items fit right.

It's the last and least successful of indie director Henry Jaglom's trilogy looking at female issues.

Like the funky little shop at its heart, Going Shopping may not look like much from its exterior, but a little browsing turns up unexpected treasures.

[An] incredibly tedious and gruesome affair.

[A] witty follow-up to director Henry Jaglom's Eating and Baby Fever.

Going Shopping can make a wonderful outing for girlfriends. It's fun.

This boutique of a movie won't bring in the madding crowds of a Macy's sale.

There's one thing to be said for Jaglom: He continues to make movies in the face of critical brickbats and audience indifference, and he's lost none of his power to insult.