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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe point isn't what happens, but how it happens, and under the direction of George Cukor--working from the script by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon--Tracy and Hepburn turn in unforgettable performances.
- 100The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelGeorge Cukor directed--beautifully. It's as close to perfect as you'd want it to be.
- 90The Observer (UK)The Observer (UK)This undervalued comic masterpiece, scripted by the husband-and-wife team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, would be a fine film even if it didn't try to be funny, which it so successfully does. [06 May 2007, p.64]
- Pat and Mike is notable for featuring such actual female sports stars as Babe Didrickson Zaharias and Betty Hicks, and for displaying Hepburn’s own athletic prowess.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonNot quite as fully realised as the classic Adam's Rib, but generally good.
- 75Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumOne of the better Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn comedies—not so much for the screenplay by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, which lacks the bite and sophistication of Adam's Rib, as for the relaxed and graceful interplay of the stars.
- 60The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherIt is smoothly directed by George Cukor and slyly, amusingly played by the whole cast, especially by its due of easy, adroit, experienced stars.
- 60Time OutTime OutThis is a lazy, episodic, conventional but strangely charming variation on the old comedy formula of initially hostile misfits falling in love (here platonic).