Deborah Ross

If The Other Woman is a box-office hit, I’m going to have to top myself

This film is wholly unfunny, and also wholly reprehensible

Failing the Bechdel test: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Cameron Diaz in ‘The Other Woman’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 26 April 2014
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The Other Woman is not just an extremely bad film but also a wholly reprehensible one (she says, with her most disapproving hat on). It’s a comedy, although if you find any of it funny, that’s all I will ever need to know about you, but its unfunniness isn’t what upsets me so much.

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