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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe story's outline may be familiar, but its emphasis and quality are not.
- 83The PlaylistKatie WalshThe PlaylistKatie WalshThe film's got one of the cleverest, and most satisfying ambiguous endings of any film all year.
- 75The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinIt’s A Disaster is lively and assured before a third-act twist takes the film in an even more bracingly bleak direction. The twist is one tonal shift too many, but the film otherwise manages to find the levity, as well as the pathos, in the prospect of total annihilation.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe script excels at character-driven laughs, cerebral yet goofy, without resorting to sitcom stereotypes or genitalia-focused stupidity.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeAudiences may not care about this gang when the party starts, but once the dust settles, you’ve gotta admit, they made for pretty good company.
- 50Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe film flirts with big ideas about adult relationships, but fails to locate any gravitas about its characters' existential or psychological crises.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanBerger’s got some clever ideas, but he does not push far in exploring them. And aside from Cross, there is virtually no one to like among these self-involved suburbanites. After an hour alone with them, we can’t help wishing The End would just arrive.
- 30The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe movie lurches from the improbably silly to the drearily so, while the characters remain so emotionally and psychologically divorced from life that they might as well be zombies or sitcom stick figures.
- 20Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichBerger’s script is little more than a series of contrived comic vignettes that prevent the actors from creating believable characters, forcing them to contort to fit the low-rent farce.