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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe film is a true dramedy that wrestles with the darker, sadder elements of life in a frank, funny and deeply relatable way.
- 75The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodConsidering how much screen time they share together, Lister-Jones and Pally need to have fantastic chemistry to keep the audience rooting for Anna and Ben and, luckily, they have more than enough.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenWhere Band Aid excels is in its mix of blisteringly understated comedy with a compassionate view of the ways we can let our lives drift away from us. There’s something bracingly fresh in the way Lister-Jones and Pally combine blind spots and vulnerabilities with a particularly secular-Jewish self-consciousness.
- 70VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerBand Aid has wit and nasty charm to burn in the earlygoing, generating enough goodwill to power it through an uneven final act.
- 70Village VoiceApril WolfeVillage VoiceApril WolfeI like this couple. And their songs aren’t bad! Not so the gender-binary Mars-Venus mumbo jumbo that dominates the resolution. Still, these are quibbles with an otherwise charming and honest marriage story.
- 67The Film StageJordan RuimyThe Film StageJordan RuimyIt helps that the chemistry between Lister-Jones and Pally works, but one does wonder if another pass at the script would have elevated the film for one to care more about what’s at stake.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichBand Aid is a thin but knowing portrait of how marriages stretch, sag, and pull back together.
- 63Slant MagazineWes GreeneSlant MagazineWes GreeneAt its most honest, the film wrestles with the reluctance or unwillingness of women to fulfill ostensibly requisite roles.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreYeah, it’s dark. It starts sarcastic, bends towards sardonic and ends up downright deep in its observations about couples, the stresses on a relationship and the importance of knowing how to “fight fair.”