Little Black Book

Sony is counter-programming Collateral with the romantic comedy Little Black Book, starring Brittany Murphy, which critics are filling with snippety remarks in the margins. Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News describes the movie this way: Little Black Book is a screechy chick-flick relationship comedy with a lot of things working for and against it -- mostly against it. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post sums it all up this way: If you can't see the big twist coming, you should swear never to see another movie. If you're moved by Murphy's boo-hooing, you should swear to see a shrink and get a life. If you think it's worth it to sit there for 97 minutes for three or possibly four laughs, then you are beyond help. And Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer puts the film on her list of Movies That Aren't Worth Your Eight Bucks, Let Alone Talking About! A few critics, charmed by Murphy's performance, appear to go out of their way to say nice things about the film. For example, Kevin Crust writes in the Los Angeles Times: It's an irrefutably bad movie, littered with paper-thin characters, crummy dialogue and a mawkish undercurrent that wells up any time it starts to resemble something smarter and snappier. Yet it is somehow redeemed by Murphy's agreeably quirky performance in a horribly underwritten role, a better-than-it-deserves supporting cast led by Holly Hunter, and the crazily nonformulaic manner in which the story swerves in some unexpected directions.

I would have to say that I really liked this movie.I guess I am partial because I'm a fan of Brittany Murphy.