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Mary Pols, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...predicated on a belief that chunky Jonah Hill, or at least the persona he presents, is secretly supercool. While it turns out to be a wisp of a movie, on that front at least, it is persuasive." (Read the full review...) 647 words, 12/09/11 David Germain, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...other than Jonah Hill's admirable work ethic trying to squeeze laughs out of this dismally underdeveloped scenario, 'The Sitter' has nothing going for it." (Read the full review...) 618 words, 12/08/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "...a needlessly frenzied, pseudo-raunch comedy that whips up a whole lot of R-rated antics only to arrive at crunchy PG-13 lessons in love and tolerance." (Read the full review...) 536 words, 12/09/11 Scott Bowles, USA Today: WEAK (cg) "...one of Hollywood's bigger disappointments.... director David Gordon Green populates the movie with so many soap opera asides it's hard to keep count." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 12/08/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: POOR (cg) "I am so very, very tired of movies like this." (Read the full review...) 543 words, 12/09/11 Kat Murphy, MSN Movies: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...deftly marries hard reality and authentically poignant moments.... aided and abetted by Jonah Hill's far-from-skin-deep performance." (Read the full review...) 793 words, 12/08/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: MODERATE (cg) "...neither funny enough nor raunchy enough nor smart enough to do more than consume time and dull the senses." (Read the full review...) 834 words, 12/10/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "...doesn't take any actual risks even when it seems as if the filmmakers are trying to... much of this is as unfunny as it sounds.... Some of it, though, is absurdly comic..." (Read the full review...) 466 words, 12/09/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "...director David Gordon Green seems to think slowly wiggling the camera, as if it were on a waterbed filled with Jell-O, will up the yuks." (Read the full review...) 267 words, 12/09/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "I'm going with the filmmakers as the folks most responsible for perpetrating this terribly unfunny and overwhelmingly raunchy film..." (Read the full review...) 524 words, 12/09/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an unacknowledged remake of 'Adventures in Babysitting' with the raunch dial turned up to max.... smart, funny, agreeably perverse and simultaneously abrupt and exhausting." (Read the full review...) 616 words, 12/09/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "Mildly funny adventures in extreme baby-sitting.... at least 'The Sitter' is built around Jonah Hill, who has what it takes to anchor a stupid, crude comedy." (Read the full review...) 355 words, 12/09/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "A raunchy and passably funny romp, but the glib racism spoils the fun." (Read the full review...) 338 words, 12/09/11 Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...this is one confused movie. But it's not an altogether unsuccessful one." (Read the full review...) 514 words, 12/09/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: POOR (cg) "I am so very, very tired of movies like this." (Read the full review...) 543 words, 12/09/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "Hill plays Noah with just the right amount of self-loathing, deep down convinced of his own merit, not needing to humiliate anyone to prove it." (Read the full review...) 411 words, 12/14/11 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) "Moral bankruptcy, implausibility piled upon implausibility, unlikeable characters. All solid arguments for recommending that audiences sit this one out." (Read the full review...) 444 words, 12/09/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: WEAK (cg) "...a whole lot less than the sum of its parts." (Read the full review...) 628 words, 12/09/11 Andrew Dowler, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...never creates the sort of memorable moments that'll keep you smiling once you leave the theatre." (Read the full review...) 189 words, 12/08/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "...a vulgar, fitfully funny, if not completely fond farewell to Jonah Hill's baby fat phase." (Read the full review...) 518 words, 12/09/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "In 'Moneyball,' Jonah Hill proved himself capable of considerably more... in 'The Sitter,' Hill is back in default mode. And director David Gordon Green seems to be, too." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 12/09/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "The story is ridiculous, the individual set pieces even more so, but Hill simply plunges headlong into them, playing them for all they're worth and, more often than not, coming out ahead of the game." (Read the full review...) 590 words, 12/09/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...pushes the envelope with such sloppy gusto that you have to give in occasionally... its comic timing finds its rhythm about every fifth joke." (Read the full review...) 484 words, 12/09/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...if you can get past that rude-awakening opening -- and some of the rougher humor -- there's a comedy here." (Read the full review...) 548 words, 12/09/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "The jokes about children doing inappropriate things in inappropriate places are even less amusing than they were in 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas,' and that's saying something." (Read the full review...) 358 words, 12/09/11 Soren Andersen, Seattle Times: POOR (cg) "...filled with pee jokes, poop jokes, fart jokes, sex jokes and drug jokes, all unfunny.... the loathsome low point of the movie year." (Read the full review...) 349 words, 12/09/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: POOR (cg) "...odious, hypocritical... How did the guy who once made such artful pictures as 'George Washington' and 'All the Real Girls' and 'Undertow' arrive here?" (Read the full review...) 550 words, 12/09/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "Hill plays Noah with just the right amount of self-loathing, deep down convinced of his own merit, not needing to humiliate anyone to prove it." (Read the full review...) 411 words, 12/14/11 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: WEAK (cg) "...dull and instantly forgettable... relies on cheap jokes, illogical plotting and occasional ugly stereotypes to tell a story that feels exhausting as soon as it begins." (Read the full review...) 529 words, 12/12/11 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...drugs, guns, and racial tension in New York City. It ain't PC, but with Hill's timing and Landry Bender's Kardashian act, it's a stoner's delight." (Read the full review...) 137 words, 12/15/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...the precocious naïf behind 'George Washington' hasn't disappeared entirely here -- it just takes a little squinting to see him." (Read the full review...) 434 words, 12/08/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: GOOD (cg) "All the ends are easily tied away, and seemingly major disruptions are forgotten as soon as it's time for bed -- which is about as quickly, one guesses, as this movie will fade from mind." (Read the full review...) 846 words, 12/08/11 R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...an ugly rendering of an infantile script that constantly exploits stereotypes for cheap guffaws..." (Read the full review...) 750 words, 12/08/11 Andrew Dowler, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...never creates the sort of memorable moments that'll keep you smiling once you leave the theatre." (Read the full review...) 189 words, 12/08/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "I didn't think a flick could be worse than David Gordon Green's rapey medieval 'romp' 'Your Highness,' but 'The Sitter' tries its damnedest..." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 02/02/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "...doesn't take any actual risks even when it seems as if the filmmakers are trying to... much of this is as unfunny as it sounds.... Some of it, though, is absurdly comic..." (Read the full review...) 466 words, 12/09/11 Andrew Lapin, NPR: WEAK "Hill's trademark verbal hyperactivity never truly breaks through a script that's way more complicated than it needs to be.... The film compensates for its comedy deficit by being overly saccharine." (Read the full review...) 567 words, 12/08/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "I'm going with the filmmakers as the folks most responsible for perpetrating this terribly unfunny and overwhelmingly raunchy film..." (Read the full review...) 524 words, 12/09/11
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: GOOD "...editor Craig Alpert keeps things brisk enough that the pic never overstays its welcome. Pair that with a handful of genuinely unique flourishes, and the film delivers in terms of laughs." (Read the full review...) 671 words, 12/08/11 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "...little effort is put into convincing us he'd make the series of dumb decisions 'The Sitter' requires in order to keep him running through Manhattan and Brooklyn in the wee hours." (Read the full review...) 550 words, 12/09/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "I'm going with the filmmakers as the folks most responsible for perpetrating this terribly unfunny and overwhelmingly raunchy film..." (Read the full review...) 524 words, 12/09/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "...doesn't take any actual risks even when it seems as if the filmmakers are trying to... much of this is as unfunny as it sounds.... Some of it, though, is absurdly comic..." (Read the full review...) 466 words, 12/09/11
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