The 40 Year Old Virgin: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 8 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 179 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

84

The 40 Year-Old Virgin is buoyantly clever and amusing, a comedy of horny embarrassment that has the inspiration to present a middle-aged virgin's dilemma as a projection of all our romantic anxieties.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

80

Steve Carell plays the title character in a charmingly bent comedy about a likable geek's progress from action figures to real action.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

75

It's worth making a date with The 40-Year-Old Virgin. You won't go home disappointed.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Filthy, funny and sweet in equal measure.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

[Carell's] touched us for the very first time.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jessica Winter Village Voice (Top Critic)

[Continues the trend] whereby ethnic inclusiveness can write a blank check for ethnic stereotyping and the homo-panic jokes are supposed to be on the hetero lunkheads, not on, y'know, the gays.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

88

Carell and Apatow's script is so hip, funny and -- yes -- innocent that it's never offensive.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

88

The whole film is about embarrassment, about those moments of clammy vulnerability when the world just turns and stares.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

Balances gross-out humor with moments of genuine wit and even a little warmth.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

63

The 40-Year-Old Virgin offers some sparkling insights about the cumulative effects of performance anxiety, about how guys struggle with the transit from boys to men with little help from their pals.
Full Review » 7 years ago
David Denby New Yorker (Top Critic)

It's truly dirty and truly romantic at the same time, a combination that's very hard to pull off.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is surprisingly insightful, as buddy comedies go, and it has a good heart and a lovable hero.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Allison Benedikt Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

88

The answer is, unequivocally, yes. Yes, Steve Carell can carry a movie.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

75

A bracingly coarse, surprisingly tender movie.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

75

The 40-Year-old Virgin maintains a deft balancing act, playing raunchy sight gags and rude dialogue against heartfelt moments.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

90

A nostalgic, sentimental and wholly bawdy comedy that will make you laugh until your sides hurt.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Count me among the naysayers.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Brian Lowry Variety (Top Critic)

Crude, sophomorically homophobic but frequently funny.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

At the risk of sounding like a party pooper, The 40-Year-Old Virgin is essentially the joke spelled out in the title stretched out for nearly two hours, with lots and lots of dead spots.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

80

It's a little long, a lot lowbrow. But The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a stitch. See it if you could use a laugh.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

75

The 40 Year-Old Virgin speaks to the geek in us all, it's democratic in its ridicule, and it makes you understand why sometimes a guy just wants to stay home and talk to his toys.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jason Anderson Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

If only losing it was so good for everybody.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

If it were 20 minutes shorter, it would be that much closer to perfect.
Full Review » 6 years ago
David Edelstein Slate (Top Critic)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is too long, too sexist, and too -- shall we say -- flaccid.
Full Review » 7 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

88

If you're looking for a successor to There's Something About Mary and American Pie, look no further. It has arrived. And, if I may be so bold, this is more enjoyable than either of them.
Full Review » 7 years ago