Metacritic reviews

Although the film is a tad long, Mirkin ("Romy and Michele's High School Reunion") has managed to pull off a classy, gently funny movie in which no one throws up, a rare blessing these days.

Heartbreakers itself is something of a con game: an expensive imitation of older, better films from older, often better times.

Despite its nasty facade, this comedy is surprisingly good-natured.

To its credit, Heartbreakers lives up to expectations. Almost.

Never tickles your nasty bone, perhaps because, in an era when the gossip pages are dotted with news of celebrity prenups, the prospect of marriage as a route to instant fortune seems less scandalous than it does like business as usual.

If you're going to serve up a half-baked idea, you might as well have Sigourney Weaver do the cooking.

Trust me, you'll want to leave these people to get on with their tedious scams alone.

Despite its talented and/or attractive cast, Heartbreakers is an ugly movie: The kind that makes you feel slightly soiled afterwards.

A limp and annoying picture.

There's nothing wrong with the structure of Heartbreakers, but David Mirkin's direction is woefully clumsy -- and the movie's tone is nasty.