"Both Efron and McConaughey get very messed up physically, and both actors seem stimulated to be playing such flawed characters. Kidman exults in tramping it up but also reveals Charlottes superficial strength and more fundamental weakness."
Hollywood Reporter

"[Kidman] is a force of nature, more vulnerable, more sensual than she has ever been....The freedom she exudes is intoxicating..."
Los Angeles Times

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[D]efinitely memorable....[A] passionate film about the most passionate thing of all: infatuation."
Box Office

3 stars out of 4 -- "THE PAPERBOY is the first film directed by Lee Daniels since he made PRECIOUS, and it shows the same instinct for overwrought melodrama."
Chicago Sun-Times