Critic Reviews

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  A feeble and tedious satire on the New York art scene.

• Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

  Squandering a potentially juicy subject for ridicule, the film simply doesn't have the wit necessary to do it justice, relying instead on obvious jokes and stereotypical characterizations.

• Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times

  A deftly satisfying, comically coherent sendup of the world of art.

• Ed Park, Village Voice

  The concept is simple, even irresistible, but Posner's dishearteningly unsophisticated treatment itself rings false.

• Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International

  The female characters, with the exception of Britton, tend toward vulgar and the men register at various degrees of obnoxiousness.

• Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

  An amusing, light-hearted satire of a Manhattan art world.

• Jon Popick, Planet Sick-Boy

  The send-up here is relatively weak

• Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

  Irritatingly cutesy and self-satisfied on top of it all, making the picture something of an endurance test besides being a misfire.

• Gregory Weinkauf, New Times

  The movie's rife with types ... but any story's a good story if it's told well, and this one is, with chuckles to spare.

• Kim Williamson, Boxoffice Magazine

  [Eigeman's] driving insistence to reach some meaningful point with his Gus pushes The Next Big Thing into otherwise undeserved success.

• , E! Online

  Hardly the next big thing to hit theaters.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  The sweet romantic comedy overwhelms the satirical bitterness, producing a fluffy, pleasant, instantly forgettable picture that feels more than a little behind the times.

• Rachel Gordon, Filmcritic.com

  Set amongst the spoiled and the starving in New York, The Next Big Thing pits artistic intelligence against a pleasantly simple love story

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  A clever, amusing parody of the New York art scene that's about something much bigger.

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