Fresh
Portman can look smug in light-touch comedy, but her chemistry with Kutcher is believable (though to be fair, Kutcher is the golden retriever of male leads: blandly irresistable).
Cath Clarke, Time Out
No Strings Attached
Friendship has its benefits.
2011 · 1h 47m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Ivan Reitman
Overview
Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Fresh
At least Portman is playing someone who is recognizably human, unlike her dancer in Black Swan.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
The charismatic leads keep this watchable, but it's a waste of their talents.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Rotten
No Strings Attached is so palpably calculated that you know if the camera had pulled back a foot from the bed in which Portman and Kutcher were pretending to have sex, you'd have seen their agents standing by beaming: proud parents, proud pimps.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
One of the better romantic comedies in the last couple of years.
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com
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