The Object of my Affection : Critic Reviews

This comedy is content to enjoy the beguiling antics of Ms. Aniston, who is as skillful here as she is miscast, and to let its colorful minor characters give it a sitcom spin.

Paul Rudd is charming, and some of the scenes are intelligently written and played, but at a recent screening people on all sides of me were squirming in discomfort.

There is a movie fighting to get out of The Object of My Affection, and I like it better than the movie it's trapped in.

The plot's hokey contrivances and the theatrical shtick tend to prevail over the sporadic moments of insight and emotional truth.

While some of the solutions are a little facile, the film nevertheless succeeds, due in large part to a luminous performance by Jennifer Aniston...

It never persuades you it belongs on the big screen.

The Object of My Affection is one of the best romantic comedies I've seen in ages.

At the core... is the college dorm debate question: Can a man and a woman live and love together without sex? The answers ... in a typical dorm room are ... as interesting...

This is a tale of difficult choices and wistful decisions, of trying to choose between two types of love when only one is possible. It is touching without being sappy, and beautifully photographed.

Wendy Wasserstein's script endows the story with equal measures emotional pain and romantic buoyancy...

The best romantic comedy so far this year.

The forgettable sum does not equal the formidable parts.

Consegue se sobressair em meio a uma enxurrada de romancezinhos 'agua-com-acucar' que tem sido produzidos nos ultimos tempos.

When confronted with a film as relentlessly PC and romantically feel-good as The Object of My Affection, you eventually have to succumb.

Portrait of a determined young woman's attempt to create her own unique extended family.

Suggests a Nacho Cerda exploitation piece scored by the world's most optimistic organ grinder.

Although the movie maintains a certain level of interest, at times it feels thoroughly scattershot, especially in dealing with its characters.

Aniston is surprisingly good, and Rudd never resorts to stereotypical behavior. And the fabulous ensemble supporting cast (which includes Alan Alda, Nigel Hawthorne, Allison Janney and Steve Zahn) nearly steals the show.