Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
From the troubled child who communes with the beyond to the featureless suburban home that hosts malicious spirits, this movie ticks all the boxes for modern mainstream shockers.

Name : Edward Douglas / Alias : New York Daily News
Offers very few new scares, mainly because it's so haunted by the ghosts of far better horror movies.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Turning the usual boy-meets-girl conventions topsy-turvy - and letting women decide whether it is better to be with, or move on from the men in their lives - is refreshing and interesting.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Think of "How to Be Single" as a cinematic Whitman's Sampler: There are enough pieces that work to offset the pieces that don't.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Roughly half the scenes are terrible, nervously edited and predictable. The other half transcend the innate shrugginess of the script.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's chickbait for Valentine's weekend, a fluffball that plays like warmed-over subplots from Sex and the City.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Much like its characters' romantic lives, How to Be Single is more enjoyable when it's being casual.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
Full of frank, just-us-girls talk about men and wicked gags about drunken sex and intimate "landscaping," it's probably a poor choice for date night. But it's a great pick for girl's night out.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
"How to Be Single" zips along at a showy pace, like binge-watching a promising comedy-drama series. But while judicious editing would streamline its vignettes, the film's vivid and vulnerable characters are pretty good company.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
Being single is a mess. So is the film, and it's almost messy enough to seem authentic.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
"Why do we always tell our stories through relationships?" the film asks, then proceeds to tell all of their stories through relationships - except Wilson's, which doesn't merit a main plotline.

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
How to Be Single is a lot like its Jager-bombing, romance-seeking protagonists: Cute and goofy and kind of a mess.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Lovely stuff all around.

Name : Kayla S. Samoy / Alias : Arizona Republic
A hilarious, heartfelt and relatable rom-com, "How to Be Single" explores the struggles of dating, finding your identity and going after what you want.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
"How to Be Single" claims the mantle of feminism - at least in its hastily cobbled-together final act - but it's a burlesque on female selfhood and solidarity.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
A horrifically bad romantic comedy that serves as a celebration of entitlement, consumerism, and shallow behavior.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
The film has some fun along the way, but it is more traditional than it would like to think it is.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
Nothing here will blow you away - think of this one as taking baby steps away from what's formulaic.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Only intermittently funny, cobbling together more storylines and characters that it can bother to keep track of. At the same time, however, it's a movie that at least occasionally bothers to zag instead of zig.

Name : Meave Gallagher / Alias : Village Voice
It . exists in a candy-coated New York where everyone has infinite money, exactly six nonwhite people ever speak and Christmas is always gently covered with pristine, powdery snow.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Variety
This awkward hybrid of romantic comedy and ribald girls-just-wanna-have-fun romp is so scattershot that it never earns any of its eventual heartstring tugging.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
This reheated "Sex and the City" adventure flops, even with Leslie Mann and Rebel Wilson hard at work being funny.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
How to Be Single deserves credit for fashioning a romantic comedy that diminishes romance and elevates independence, even if its vision of solitude is a shallow version of "me" time.

Name : Julian Carrington / Alias : Globe and Mail
The blandness of the film's execution tempers the praise it's owed for the relative boldness of its themes.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
This concept of single still assumes that a woman must have a man, that a girl's only choice is between one boyfriend or 20.

Name : Katie Rife / Alias : AV Club
Learning to enjoy one's own company is valued as much as learning the real meaning of intimacy, and casual sex (of the heterosexual, vanilla sort) is portrayed as a simple fact of life that is nothing to be ashamed of.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The execution may not be there, but at least it has good intentions. Then again, you know what they say about the road to hell.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
This charming and frequently hilarious romp jumbles the stale conventions of the rom-com genre to delicious effect.

Name : Nicole Einbinder / Alias : Seattle Times
An entertaining movie that, while lacking real substance or stellar acting, hints at themes to which we can definitely all relate.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Unsure what kind of movie it wants to be, How To Be Single is a messy mix of everything, burying the final, genuinely felt 20 minutes that could have saved this intermittently amusing, sloppily made rom-com.