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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 25 Aug 2007

If you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in, Sweet Home Alabama is diverting in the manner of Jeff Foxworthy's…

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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jul 2007

This is the usual cartoon of hound dogs, roadhouses, antebellum mansions, and Civil War reenactments. Aside from that, it's not a bad date movie…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Jul 2007

Witherspoon has the class, the sass and the full-out talent to sustain a major career…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 16 Dec 2006

If Sweet Home Alabama, directed by Andy Tennant from a screenplay by C…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 04 Dec 2006

Witherspoon shines. She's never looked better, and she carries herself with both her usual comedic flair and a surprising elegance…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Aug 2006

Light to the point of disposability, Sweet Home Alabama is a small screwball comic idea that spins out far too long…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 May 2006

It doesn't have a speck of authentic heart -- you can bet its Hollywood creators wouldn't move to Alabama if their lives depended on it --…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Nov 2005

The film does coast along smoothly to the inevitable, which is a credit to the always-game Reese Witherspoon, who's courteous enough to pretend…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 May 2005

The South takes another beating in Sweet Home Alabama, but that's nothing compared with the one conferred on the sweetheart personality of…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 24 May 2005

Speaking of sounding Southern, I have to admit that the accents didn't match, and half the actors couldn't even do accents…

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By Robert Wilonsky (520) for New Times (L.A.) (313) on 03 Aug 2004

To call the film contrived would imply that some sort of effort had been made, when Sweet Home Alabama is nothing but dead lazy and slow — y'all…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 23 Mar 2004

Fluff in the tradition of Hollywood's screwball comedies of remarriage, lacking the wit or grace of such classics as His Girl Friday (1940)…

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By Laura Sinagra (110) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Aug 2003

The clunky yee-haw script full of tired bitch/angel oppositions and Witherspoon's school-play petulance cranks the twang to a blare…

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By John J. Puccio (1,217) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 26 Jan 2003

a well-intentioned but saccharine comedy... In fact, that's its problem. It doesn't do much of anything but meet our lowest expectations…

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By Alex Ramirez (113) for Cinenganos (252) on 13 Nov 2002

Diversión asegurada, justo el tipo de cintas que se necesita de vez en cuando…

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By Rachel Deahl (46) for Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) (25) on 23 Oct 2002

A romantic comedy, sans much of the comedy, this clunky Reese Witherspoon vehicle glows with the powerful allure of its shiny, irresistible…

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By Dan Lybarger (786) for Nitrate Online (381) on 13 Oct 2002

It's a safe bet that the gutsy Lynyrd Skynyrd, particularly the outspoken and now deceased singer Ronnie Van Zant, would not have approved…

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By Josh Gilchrist (44) for Billings Outpost (Montana) (29) on 07 Oct 2002

If this is Witherspoon's idea of a good career move, someone get this woman a career counselor, pronto…

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By Jason Clark (86) for Matinee Magazine (292) on 07 Oct 2002

Here is a movie that asks us to adore a miserable young woman who wrecks lives, treats people like discarded Biore strips and embodies the…

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By Bruce Bennett (577) for Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (575) on 06 Oct 2002

Witherspoon is so unquestionably likable that it speaks volumes that Sweet Home Alabama can turn her into a grating ingrate who we neither…

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