With yet another ho-hum run at the multiplexes, Katherine Heigl's big-screen resumé is fast looking like an insider's gag.
- Ed Gibbs, The Sun Herald, February 19, 2012
An ungainly mix of flat-footed gumshoeing and strained attempts at hilarity, all delivered with an unconvincing Joizy vibe.
- Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2012
The movie has the by-the-numbers efficiency of a decent TV series, and about as much flavor.
- Mark Feeney, Boston Globe, January 28, 2012
There have been notable exceptions, but Heigl tends to imbue her characters with an off-putting mix of insecurity and abrasiveness. This film is a prime example.
- Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News, January 27, 2012
I guess I can't call the movie sexist as it was largely produced, directed and written by women. So I'll settle for calling it dull, corny and amateurish instead.
- Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger, January 27, 2012
There is action of a sort -- a car blows up, shots are fired -- and what might pass for witty, sexy banter to someone who once overheard a conversation about an episode of Moonlighting.
- A.O. Scott, New York Times, January 27, 2012
Imagine an Elmore Leonard movie scripted by a bad Nora Ephron imitator, and you'll have an idea of how dead-in-the-Jersey-water it is.
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly, January 27, 2012
Punitively dull.
- Melissa Anderson, Village Voice, January 27, 2012
Everything in One for the Money rings cringingly false.
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone, January 27, 2012
Tedious and tonally inept.
- Andrew Barker, Variety, January 27, 2012
Janet Evanovich's best-selling Stephanie Plum series deserved better than this woefully executed, stillborn attempt at a franchise.
- Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter, January 27, 2012
One for the Money is tepidly glib throughout. Even violent murders are followed by wisecracks or another prurient opportunity to ogle Heigl's behind and cleavage.
- Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail, January 27, 2012
To compare this mess to a sitcom would be an insult to sitcoms.
- Peter Howell, Toronto Star, January 26, 2012
An avalanche of grating big-hair-and-bad-accent New Joisey caricatures.
- Nick Schager, Time Out New York, January 30, 2012
As bland and flavourless as movies come. Please God, no Two For The Show!
- Dan Stewart, Little White Lies, February 23, 2012
You could go nuts with the double entendres associated with One for the Money, beginning, of course, with the film's title.
- R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant Magazine, January 28, 2012
Heigl's comic timing is solid, and she knows her limitations well enough, but there's a hollowness at the movie's center, right where Heigl's heart should be.
- Sam Adams, AV Club, January 27, 2012
Heigl, sporting tousled brunette locks, gives a busy, unconvincing performance.
- Leah Rozen, The Wrap, January 27, 2012
