Kate Hudson Says Critics Hating Her Rom-Coms Were ‘Not Looking at What People Need’: We Didn’t ‘Set Out to Make Some Critically Acclaimed, Oscar-Worthy Film’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kate Hudson is an icon of the romantic-comedy genre, but her movies weren’t exactly embraced by film critics. “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” has a 42% on Rotten Tomatoes, for instance.

Then there’s “Fools Gold,” “Bride Wars” and “Something Borrowed,” all of which have Rotten Tomatoes scores of 15% or below. Roger Ebert infamously wrote in his “How to Lose a Guy” review that he wished to place Hudson and co-star Matthew McConaughey in the “witness protection program” because of how bad he thought the movie was. “If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film,” Ebert added.

Hudson recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about these negative reviews of her rom-com favorites, and she noted that opinions have changed over time.

Plus, she was never making any of these movies for the critical acclaim anyway. “I think the critic has changed,” Hudson said. “In the movie world, critics who are looking at things with a certain microscope might sometimes not be looking at it as what people need.