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Metascore
38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThanks for Sharing is a bit of a head-snapper in its tone changes, stumbling into flippancy. The light moments are appreciated, but they do tend to undercut the sobriety of it all.
- 60The GuardianCatherine ShoardThe GuardianCatherine ShoardShame was erotic compulsion turned into opera, full of sombre vibrato. Thanks for Sharing is probably the more realistic, as well as more mainstream, and there's a generous pinch of very funny lines, mostly bestowed on Robbins.
- 60EmpireAnna SmithEmpireAnna SmithThe Kids Are All Right writer Stuart Blumberg's first directorial effort is a frothy affair with typically strong turns from Ruffalo and Paltrow.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyToo much of what happens as the characters undergo their various brushes with failure and redemption feels predetermined, slapping what aims to be a much savvier film with a debilitating touch of the formulaic.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeCollectively, Thanks for Sharing boasts more than enough personalities to keep things interesting, but it lacks the casual spontaneity to make these characters’ journeys anything other than predictable.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyThis tone-deaf misfire can't decide whether it wants to be a broad comedy doling out raunchy slapstick laughs or a serious drama about our porn-saturated age of sensory overload.
- 50Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerIs an exploration of sex addiction, in all its different manifestations, the new flavor of the week in contemporary American cinema?
- 42The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthNever quite as deep or probing as it thinks it is, Thanks For Sharing is an unsatisfying tease.
- 35Film.comLaremy LegelFilm.comLaremy LegelThanks for Sharing can’t quite find its footing as either a drama or a comedy, and near the end it’s actively sliding off the rails.