A proposito di Steve

Sandra Bullock innamorata un ciclone in cerca di guai

Reduce dall'Oscar come miglior attrice, Sandra Bullock conferma di essere una delle migliori interpreti americane di oggi anche in questa modesta commedia romantico-demenziale, che ruota intorno all'ennesimo personaggio femminile solitario e privo di affetti. Anzi «A proposito di Steve», con la sua piatta esposizione e prevedibilità comica, esalta ulteriormente la grinta espressiva e il talento a tutto campo dell'attrice. Tanto brillante come creatrice di cruciverba per un giornale quanto incapace di vita sociale e di abbandoni amorosi, Mary conosce il cameraman Steve e decide che è l'uomo della sua vita. »

Brainy Crossword Creator Tackles the Puzzle of Love

It seems incredible, but the grimly unfunny comedy “All About Steve” might just be the worst movie on Sandra Bullock’s résumé. What makes this insult (to her, to us) even worse is that her production company backed the project. This means that unlike movie stars of the classical studio system, who were contractually obliged by their bosses to sometimes play insulting, trivializing roles, Ms. Bullock, or more likely her representatives, actually tapped people to make her look this bad. She’s the mistress of her own misfortune. »

Sandra Bullock plays a romantically obsessed crossword puzzle creator, and her decision to produce and star in this unfunny comedy is puzzling indeed.

By the time the majestically unstable and unfunny "All About Steve" gets to a smudged, bleeding Sandra Bullock delivering a teary soliloquy next to a scared deaf girl in a mineshaft, you might assume a film this bonkers would head straight to the center of the Earth next. Or a moon made of cheese. Someplace woefully unreal, in other words. Hollywood movies preaching nonconformity are rarely a winning proposition, and "All About Steve" is no exception: an eat-your-cake-and-have-it-too exercise that razzes oddballs to no end before nearly martyring its off-kilter heroine to guilt-trip the audience. »

I don't have much to say about this unwatchable, unbearably unfunny farce in which Sandra Bullock hits the lowest point of her career as delusional, demented Mary Magdalene Horowitz, a cruciverbalist (she creates crossword puzzles) with no sex life who believes she'll find happiness by stalking Steve (Bradley Cooper), a TV news cameraman who wisely tries to avoid her. Audiences are advised to do the same. Jokes involve deaf children falling down a mine shaft. Da Rolling Stone, 3 settembre 2009 »