Little Italy: reviews

What the critics say average 4.0 from 20 outlets

• 7.0 What I Watched TonightMatt Hudson It may be cheesier than the delightful array of pizzas that seduced my eyes throughout, but Little Italy gave me a surprisingly good time – feel good and fun, that's all I needed. Read
• 6.3 MovieFreakSara Michelle Fetters Even with an extra large sampling of undercooked melodramatic hooey I find it difficult to find this slice of cheesy romance to be entirely inedible. Read
• 6.3 Toronto StarBruce DeMara Still, the movie is not without charms, thanks to a host of fine supporting performances and some decent chemistry between the two romantic leads. Read
• 6.0 Katrina OlsonKatrina Olson Little Italy is a millennial's Romeo & Juliet. Read
• 5.0 Exclaim!Alex Hudson Still, despite the many stumbles, Little Italy is a bit like pizza itself — even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. Read
• 4.9 NYC Movie GuruAvi Offer At a running time of 1 hour and 42 minutes, Little Italy is a stale romcom that's bland, heavy on the cheese and ultimately forgettable. Read
• 4.0 Flickering MythTom Beasley There's nothing that's new in Little Italy and it often seems like the film has undergone some bizarre sort of quantum leap from a time a few decades ago when movies like this reigned supreme. Read
• 4.0 Blu-ray.comBrian Orndorf Perhaps Petrie is trying his luck again after striking out with many duds ("My Life in Ruins," "Just My Luck," "Welcome to Mooseport"), but he's an impossibly bland filmmaker. Read
• 4.0 PopEntertainmentJay S. Jacobs If you go into Little Italy with lowish expectations, it can be moderately amusing. It's the type of movie that will waste a couple of hours if you run across it on cable. Read
• 3.8 The Globe and MailBarry Hertz A slice of advice, then: Take the film’s 102 minutes to visit the actual Little Italy and enjoy a leisurely meal. Or make your own pie at home. Or stay home and do nothing. Basta! Read
• 3.8 Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper This is an extra-cheesy and terrible film, but there IS a certain comfort-viewing pleasure to be had from watching the wonderful cast gamely attempting to sell exchanges such as this. Read
• 3.0 Los Angeles TimesKatie Walsh Despite an energetic supporting cast, including Martin, Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello and Garry Basaraba, the two leads sleepwalk through this limp and formulaic endeavor. Read
• 3.0 Ready Steady CutM.N. Miller Little Italy is so stereotypical of cultures and sexual orientations, goes so out of its way to be different for the sake of being different, and oddly plays things safe when you think the script will try something new. Read
• 3.0 CinemalogueTodd Jorgenson You'd need considerably more spice to inject any flavor into this flat romantic comedy from director Donald Petrie (Grumpy Old Men) that brings nothing new to the genre menu. Read
• 3.0 In The SeatsVictor Stiff Little Italy plays like a movie from another era. Its sitcomy performances, reductive themes, and problematic humour, are 10-years too late. Read
• 3.0 Winnipeg Free PressJill Wilson Canadian rom-com Little Italy tells you exactly what kind of film it's going to be in the first two minutes: a leaning tower of clichés built on a foundation of stereotypes. Read
• 2.5 Original-CinKim Hughes Well-cast, led by a reputable director, and cheerily underwritten by multiple levels of government, the feckless rom-com succeeds in only one way: it’s awful by any metric you apply. Read
• 2.5 Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair And although Christensen and Roberts are relatively charming within their respective roles, Little Italy's almost total dearth of positive attributes effectively negates its few affable elements. Read
• 2.0 Richard CrouseRichard Crouse 'Little Italy,' a new rom com starring Hayden Christensen and Emma Roberts, is good hearted enough but feels like it arrived via a marinara sauce splattered time capsule from 1985. Read
• 2.0 Common Sense MediaRenee Longstreet Charmless romcom has swearing, sexual references. Read