Affluenza
FilmBuff | Release Date: July 11, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
New York PostSara StewartJul 9, 2014
“Gatsby” meets “Gossip Girl” in this outsider-among-the-wealthy story set, like Fitzgerald’s novel, on Long Island. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyStephan LeeJul 11, 2014
The generational conflict — overly ambitious parents and their disaffected millennial children — plays so on-the-nose it almost seems like satire, but it’s really just bad writing. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAbby GarnettJul 10, 2014
The film is dragged down by its awkwardly paradoxical story, which tries too hard to care too little. Read full review
40
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJul 10, 2014
Straining to find a correlation, even metaphorical, between teenage hedonism and economic collapse, Affluenza never coheres. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJul 10, 2014
Ultimately feels as shallow as the lives of most of its principal characters. Read full review
40
The DissolveChris KlimekJul 8, 2014
Nothing is revealing or surprising in this horse-beating tale of spiritual poverty among the extremely wealthy. It’s uninvolving enough to make Ayn Rand herself beg for a bailout. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJul 11, 2014
Affluenza thinks it is deep when it is merely trite. It illuminates nothing. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJul 10, 2014
The film is an empty shell, reducing a complex lament to a shallow portrait of wealthy hedonists behaving badly. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenJul 17, 2014
The movie opens with the suggestion that it will address the generational divide, but it has nothing of substance to say. Read full review
30
VarietyAndrew BarkerJul 14, 2014
A splashy-looking yet depressingly empty exercise that is never more shallow than the times when it tries to go deep. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneJul 10, 2014
The film is like an episode of Gossip Girl that's mistaken itself for one of the great satires by Evelyn Waugh. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 10, 2014
The movie’s ennui feels like so much posing, and the Bret Easton Ellis-lite characters are monotone. It’s rich in effort, but it all comes to diminishing returns. Read full review
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