New in Town

Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. headline this romantic comedy about an ambitious Miami executive who meets the man of her dreams and begins reassessing her big-city values after accepting a temporary transfer to the middle of nowhere. When it comes to climbing the corporate latter, Lucy Hill ...more

Whether New in Town has more contempt for women, Midwesterners, blue-collar workers, or the soulless corporations that exploit them could be debated, but the movie definitely doesn't think much of its audience. Renee Zellweger stars as a snooty workaholic Miami exec with no visible personal life. She is dispatched by the heartless bigwigs at HQ to supervise a downsizing makeover at one of the company's small-town plants. It turns out to be staffed by the kind of unsophisticated, ...more

A romantic comedy just as benign and generic as its instantly forgettable title suggests, New in Town may be a simplistic reworking of rom-com script number 42B, yet much like Blanche Gunderson's "nothing fancy" meatloaf, it has a certain Midwestern charm that settles calmly in the stomach, making the viewer feel warm, comfortable, and quick to smile. Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) is a Miami executive on the fast track to becoming CEO of a powerful business firm. Presented with the opportunity to ...more