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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "We don't choose our families, but we can still learn from them.... a touching movie that stays with you." (Read the full review...) 140 words, 03/15/12 Mary Pols, Time: VERY GOOD "...subtly winds its way into a tender, wise and completely delightful film about family.... This is the kind of Jeff who lives at home and also in your heart." (Read the full review...) 726 words, 03/16/12 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a sweet, slight tale told with simple intimacy and a deadpan tone to its absurd humor. Not much happens over a meandering day... but it all builds to a climax that makes the journey worthwhile." (Read the full review...) 547 words, 03/15/12 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...appealing yet disjointed... Despite some funny pratfalls, the fraternal chemistry between Segel's overgrown infant and anxious Helms feels contrived..." (Read the full review...) 114 words, 03/22/12 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a goofy, sweet comedy about estranged siblings who work their way back to brotherly love in the course of a daylong, very shaggy caper of coincidences." (Read the full review...) 247 words, 03/16/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "...funny, touching and vital... reaffirms your faith in Jay and Mark Duplass. Their films hit you where you live." (Read the full review...) 302 words, 03/16/12 Scott Bowles, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "...lovable stoners are a Hollywood fixture. But they're just tough to hang a movie on.... Thankfully, Ed Helms and Susan Sarandon pick up where Jeff leaves off, and then some." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 03/16/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's not a Feel Good Movie, more of a Feel Sorta Good Movie." (Read the full review...) 622 words, 03/16/12 Kat Murphy, MSN Movies: MODERATE (cg) "...verging-on-sitcom silliness... The kind of arch indie comedy that likes looking at itself... wears thin, all surface and not that much heart." (Read the full review...) 762 words, 03/15/12 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...short enough not to wear out its welcome but the payoff is so slim that the investment of any serious time or effort is unlikely to be repaid in full." (Read the full review...) 684 words, 03/15/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...as his destiny unfolds, you come to like Jeff and even to admire him. The aura of holy foolishness that hangs around him is not just bong exhaust: he turns out to be the hero of a disarmingly sincere spiritual fable." (Read the full review...) 948 words, 03/16/12 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The whole movie is about piecing together broken parts. It may not always come together, but what it makes, if you look at it the right way, is endearing." (Read the full review...) 332 words, 03/16/12 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "If, like Jeff, you keep your expectations seriously in check, the film is an amusing slice of several ordinary lives. But in the end, the movie -- like its lead -- feels a little too aimless, then a little too obvious." (Read the full review...) 494 words, 03/16/12 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a bit too shaggy to totally live up to the potential of its fine cast. But there are moments of comedy gold..." (Read the full review...) 419 words, 03/16/12 Roger Moore, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...takes the Duplass art to a new, deeper place. Credit the cast or the characters tripping through well-worn situations and relationships, but this is far and away their best movie." (Read the full review...) 455 words, 03/16/12 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: WEAK (cg) "...quasi-quirky, paper-thin... pointless stylistic tics (the sudden zoom) mix with syrupy Hollywood convention (an ending so maudlin it's laughable). Everyone here, including the filmmakers, should be aiming higher." (Read the full review...) 257 words, 03/16/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's not a Feel Good Movie, more of a Feel Sorta Good Movie." (Read the full review...) 622 words, 03/16/12 Brian Miller, Village Voice: VERY GOOD "...a surprisingly mutable, ultimately poignant day-in-the-life drama about a slacker who genuinely wants to stand tall.... It's not a major film, but an endearing adventure in hope nonetheless." (Read the full review...) 742 words, 03/14/12 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "What could have been a simple day-in-the-life comedy about scrapping siblings takes a sudden and unexpectedly dramatic turn in the final reel, ending in an emotional scene that elevates this quirky work." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 03/16/12 James Adams, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "It felt like a movie that was only just preparing to hit its stride and deliver the laughs we'd come for." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 03/16/12 Mark Olsen, LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...a shaggy-dude story with an emotional payoff... Sharp while knowingly a little stupid, heartfelt and sincere while also more than just a touch stylized and slapsticky... a resonant goof." (Read the full review...) 180 words, 11/03/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...the atonal influence of producer Jason Reitman can be felt all over the picture's second half.... a film trapped irresolvably between the idiosyncrasies it loves and the desire to attract a mass audience." (Read the full review...) 164 words, 03/15/12
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...with its shambling, felicitously contrived structure and Fellini-esque climax, it's some kind of Jungian slacker fable." (Read the full review...) 532 words, 03/16/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "The plausibility of the finale is open to question, but the filmmaking duo's determination to take us there makes a nice kind of sense." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 03/16/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "This is a low-budget, low-fidelity production.... The jokes are understated... The story is wise... It won't change your life but it'll probably send you out the exit smiling." (Read the full review...) 430 words, 03/16/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The Duplass brothers have pulled off a neat trick... for fans of quirky charm leavened occasionally by uncomfortable, realistic exchanges, the film is a small delight." (Read the full review...) 556 words, 03/16/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: WEAK (cg) "This is a sitcom at four times the length, 10 percent the amusement, and triple the amount of nauseating photography." (Read the full review...) 754 words, 03/16/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...compelling and provocative.... the Duplasses actually accomplish something I've yet to see their mumblecore brethren do -- earn some real and heartfelt tears." (Read the full review...) 593 words, 03/16/12 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Give these four characters to any other filmmaker, and you would get back an earnest but very boring movie.... the Duplass brothers find ways to activate these characters." (Read the full review...) 584 words, 03/16/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has a meandering quality, like its title, that's oddly appealing; you feel like you know these very regular-looking people, and slowly become invested in their dilemmas." (Read the full review...) 289 words, 03/16/12 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a sneaky little movie.... The plot threads, and the cast, converge on a traffic-choked bridge out of Baton Rouge. There, the movie takes a sudden, and astonishing, left turn..." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 03/16/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a high-wire act that could crash if the actors were out of sync, but under this big top, the never-better Jason Segel keeps everyone aloft." (Read the full review...) 321 words, 03/16/12 Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "Susan Sarandon hasn't been this good in a while... It's a movie that grows on you, after grating your nerves while viewing it." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 03/15/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...this neat-if-convenient bundle of emotional connection is the Duplass brothers' most rewarding effort yet." (Read the full review...) 322 words, 03/16/12 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "...a surprisingly sappy misfire from brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, a hug-it-out, touchy-feely movie that succumbs to the maudlin sentimentality they had avoided in all their previous pictures ('The Puffy Chair,' 'Baghead,' 'Cyrus')." (Read the full review...) 393 words, 03/02/12
Brian Miller, Village Voice: VERY GOOD "...a surprisingly mutable, ultimately poignant day-in-the-life drama about a slacker who genuinely wants to stand tall.... It's not a major film, but an endearing adventure in hope nonetheless." (Read the full review...) 742 words, 03/14/12 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Even if you can't get into the storylines or are bothered by the Duplass' free-moving camera, the loveliness and heart of the characters is so deep that you can't help but want to appreciate them." (Read the full review...) 643 words, 03/15/12 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Maybe it's Segel's sad naïveté, or the filmmakers' inventiveness and metaphorical dexterity, but even when the contrivance kicks in, it seems like Jeff might have the right idea." (Read the full review...) 162 words, 03/15/12 Mark Olsen, LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...a shaggy-dude story with an emotional payoff... Sharp while knowingly a little stupid, heartfelt and sincere while also more than just a touch stylized and slapsticky... a resonant goof." (Read the full review...) 180 words, 11/03/11 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "The Duplass brothers give the film an ingratiatingly ramshackle tone in keeping with their meandering protagonist, until a third act betrays that low-key naturalism with an assault of melodrama." (Read the full review...) 331 words, 03/15/12 Cynthia Fuchs, Pop Matters: WEAK (cg) "...makes fun of familiar plots even while it uses them... Even as Jeff insists that 'All this randomness is leading somewhere,' the movie is looking stuck." (Read the full review...) 888 words, 03/15/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: GOOD (cg) "...worships at the altar of the small moment... the Duplasses hold their cracked magnifying glass up to something very real. And oddly enough, it's the crack that makes all the difference." (Read the full review...) 931 words, 03/16/12 Andrew Schenker, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...feels at once as loose as the Duplass brothers' trademark lurching faux-verité camerawork (which gets more tired with each film) and contrived-to-the-point-of-impossible-to-credit overdetermination." (Read the full review...) 692 words, 03/14/12 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...the atonal influence of producer Jason Reitman can be felt all over the picture's second half.... a film trapped irresolvably between the idiosyncrasies it loves and the desire to attract a mass audience." (Read the full review...) 164 words, 03/15/12 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the Duplass brothers begin with the actors and trappings of a more conventional Hollywood comedy that evolves into a looser, less formulaic story." (Read the full review...) 326 words, 03/15/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: VERY GOOD (cg) "...sweet and amusing... And yet it ends up making you wish it realized its own potential to be truly original instead of going down a well-trod path..." (Read the full review...) 567 words, 05/17/12
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: VERY GOOD "Surprisingly, most of the material avoids the treacle zone, while Jason Segel, as the man-child in residence, gives a performance that I can only describe as gravely affecting." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 03/16/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...as his destiny unfolds, you come to like Jeff and even to admire him. The aura of holy foolishness that hangs around him is not just bong exhaust: he turns out to be the hero of a disarmingly sincere spiritual fable." (Read the full review...) 948 words, 03/16/12 Ian Buckwalter, NPR: GOOD "...unassuming, dryly funny, often ramshackle... seems unlikely to be as emotionally rich as it is. Both Jeff and the film have a way of sneaking up on you." (Read the full review...) 627 words, 03/15/12 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "If, like Jeff, you keep your expectations seriously in check, the film is an amusing slice of several ordinary lives. But in the end, the movie -- like its lead -- feels a little too aimless, then a little too obvious." (Read the full review...) 494 words, 03/16/12
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "Toplining Jason Segel as a 30-year-old man-child with no intention of leaving the nest.... Graced with Susan Sarandon's radiant turn... it's loaded with moments of uneasy recognition, mostly amusing, but in many cases poignant as well." (Read the full review...) 817 words, 09/14/11 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "A short and sweet outing pairing the Duplass brothers with mismatched screen siblings Jason Segel and Ed Helms... pulls back from the comedy of 'Cyrus' in favor of character-defining vignettes and moments of grace." (Read the full review...) 487 words, 09/14/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "If, like Jeff, you keep your expectations seriously in check, the film is an amusing slice of several ordinary lives. But in the end, the movie -- like its lead -- feels a little too aimless, then a little too obvious." (Read the full review...) 494 words, 03/16/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (cg) "While the acting, of both the leads and supporting roles, is uniformly good, the writing is uneven, veering from hilariously comic and revelatory sequences to scenes that feel indulgent, sort of time-fillers." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 02/28/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...as his destiny unfolds, you come to like Jeff and even to admire him. The aura of holy foolishness that hangs around him is not just bong exhaust: he turns out to be the hero of a disarmingly sincere spiritual fable." (Read the full review...) 948 words, 03/16/12 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: VERY GOOD "Surprisingly, most of the material avoids the treacle zone, while Jason Segel, as the man-child in residence, gives a performance that I can only describe as gravely affecting." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 03/16/12
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