Directed By:Sanaa Hamri
Written By:Kriss Turner
Something New
Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
57% Positive
16 Reviews
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39% Mixed
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4% Negative
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100
First-time feature director Sanaa Hamri's virtually perfect romantic comedy is a marvelous mix of brains and heart that confronts serious questions about race and dating with sensitivity, humor and enormous sex appeal.
75
A satisfying chick flick that follows all the usual rules of the modern romantic comedy except one - it's not stupid.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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Dec 13, 2015
10
The movie was excellent. IMPORTANT: The review and "0" score by "joshC" should be removed - it blatantly plagIarizes the Boston Globe review by Wesley Morris and offers nothing new or original.
Apr 19, 2011
10
Every time I see this movie I love it more. This is definitely a chick flick for black women who grew up middle to upper middle class. I loved the chemistry between the characters, the humor of two very different people falling in love who just happen to be of different races and Socio economic backgrounds. From the moment they meet to getting to know each other and experiencing new things the movie makes you laugh and think. The family dynamic reminds me of my friends and I who have only seen a ghetto/hood on television or the movies and do have brothers older and younger just like in this movie. Also the doting father and socially concious mom yep very realistic from a suburban view. There was no old 70 's or 80 's prejudicial point of views in the movie, and thank goodness there was no crazy angry black woman "Sista" mannerisms that black women haters like to use to parody black women. I wish the director would make a follow-up to this movie just to see how they did or at least get funding to do more movies like this. People who might not like this movie will have comments about the plot being unrealistic and those people I have to wonder what background experience is driving that point of view. But if you take the racial factor out of the movie, it is a really sweet love story. Unfortunately, black women today are stuck with Tyler Perry who continues to denigrate us in the pictures he makes. H
75
The film is not riotous, but it is sporadically amusing.
67
Manages the neat feat of feeling sweetly inevitable rather than boilerplate predictable.
60
Wispy at best, this romantic comedy from a first-time director and screenwriter feels as if whole chunks have been left on the cutting-room floor, with what remains mustering intermittent charm thanks to the attractiveness, if not chemistry, of Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker.
50
It'll appeal to that segment of the population that goes to movies like this on Valentine's Day, but other than that, Something New feels pretty worn.
38
This is an inept and unsubtle romantic fantasy about how black people and white people don't mix.
Dec 19, 2018
3
Something stupid and almost boring. An over-critical black woman has locked up in her bubble and does not want to get out of there. Eventually she did and take the risk to go out with terribly normal and and surprisingly patient white guy. That's all.
Production Company:
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- Homegrown Pictures
Release Date:Feb 3, 2006
Duration:1 h 39 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:She had it all under control. Except her heart
Awards
Black Reel Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Black Movie Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
BET Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
