Cyrus
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: June 18, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A dulcetly crazy, certifiably hilarious and eerily mysterious little comedy. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Cyrus cues us to expect it to go over the top, but the film never does. That may be its neatest trick Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Amuses and unnerves in equal measure. A comedy of discomfort that walks a wonderful line between reality-based emotional honesty and engaging humor, it demonstrates the good things that happen when quirky independent style combines with top-of-the-line acting skill. Read full review
88
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Cyrus is affecting, but not in a clean, easily recognizable way. It is funny, but in a warped manner more likely to provoke unease than unbridled laughter. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Cyrus, the summer's best, most original and crazily inventive comedy, is potently funny and painfully real. Read full review
88
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Middle-aged romance can be a dicey prospect. And it gets more complicated when children are in the picture. But it gets more complex still if the "child" is actually 21, and creepily meddlesome. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Here is a film that uses very good actors and gives them a lot of improvisational freedom to talk their way into, around and out of social discomfort. And it's not snarky. It doesn't mock these characters. It understand they have their difficulties and hopes they find a way to work things out. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Amuses and unnerves in equal measure. Read full review
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
There's no way to make this a feel-good movie, and admirably the Duplass brothers don't try. Cyrus finds its humor in dark places, through characters bringing out the worst in each other. Read full review
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
There's an original comic temperament at work here, and that's rare. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
How pleasant to report, then, that a new romantic comedy -- small, smart, funny, tender and dear -- should emerge from a pair of filmmaking brothers still in their 30s and with a distinct indie film pedigree that informs, while not dominating, their work. Read full review
80
Time OutDavid Fear
Neither Reilly nor Tomei have ever seemed so effortlessly funny, and whoever thought to cast one of Judd Apatow's regulars as a dysfunctional, disturbed manchild should be dubbed a genius. Read full review
80
Village VoiceElla Taylor
A freakishly engrossing black comedy about excessively mothered men and the women who enable them. Read full review
80
TimeMary Pols
The scariest romantic comedy of the year. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
An enjoyably off-kilter romantic comedy with a touch of madcap farce and just a hint of darkness. Read full review
80
NPRBob Mondello
The filmmakers -- mumblecore moguls, if such a thing can be said to exist -- prefer a squirmy kind of comedy that's all about the awkward situations real people find themselves in. And with these performers, the vibe stays down-to-earth and almost entirely unpredictable. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
The comedy of discomfort that runs through Cyrus is often about several things at once. But the most prevalent emotion in this quirky yet genuine movie is the awkwardness that comes with trying to fit into someone else's life. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
As the furiously passive-aggressive title character, Jonah Hill delivers a craftier comic performance than anything in his box-office hits (Superbad, Get Him to the Greek), but what really elevates the story above its shticky premise is the combined neuroses of all three characters. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Hughes
The Duplass brothers enter the mainstream with a touching, original and supremely funny film, whose improvisational style sets it apart from other comedies, and marks the emergence of two major new talents. Great performances, too. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Although Jonah Hill has been sweetly, profanely funny in such films as "Superbad" and "Get Him to the Greek," in Cyrus he's a revelation. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
Like the recent "Greenberg," Cyrus is not the jokey, polished production you would expect from its Hollywood cast and LA setting, but audiences who are comfortable with discomfort should find it "funny." Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Even at its most troubling, Cyrus is powered by a deep vein of humanism, one that offers hope to even the weirdest among us. Read full review
75
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The combination of a flexible, funny cast, an amusing situation and a style of movie-making that embraces every happy, nasty accident make this if not the funniest, then certainly the most uncomfortable comedy of the summer. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
It's a shrewd, poignant drama disguised as a comedy. Read full review
75
MovielineMichelle Orange
Hill cuts a hilariously adversarial figure. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei and Jonah Hill give such wonderfully satisfying, full-blooded performances in Cyrus that it seems almost churlish to wish this creepy little Oedipal comedy were a little more well-thought-out, and handled its wilder shifts in tone with more finesse. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Don't be fooled by the casual style. There is nothing casual about these emotions, or about the talent of these two filmmakers. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter Debruge
Think of Cyrus as the Duplasses for the masses, as the keenly observant sibs upgrade their scrappy, relationship-based formula to work with movie stars and a Fox Searchlight-size budget without sacrificing the raw, naturalistic feel of their first two features, "The Puffy Chair" and "Baghead." Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Cyrus is very funny, and Keener's supporting work as John's divorced ex also amuses. A pat conclusion nevertheless negates the strength of the restive narrative that precedes it. Read full review
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