Everything Must Go
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: May 13, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
25
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 9, 2011
While the film is neither entertaining nor profound, Ferrell makes it watchable at least. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianMarc MohanMay 12, 2011
Whereas Carver writes about alcoholics, this movie is about alcoholism, which is completely different. Read full review
50
SlateDana StevensMay 14, 2011
If these developments sound slight and meandering, so is the movie. Everything Must Go has a spacious, under-inhabited feeling. Read full review
50
NPRIan BuckwalterMay 13, 2011
It's Rush who makes these characters push one another toward healing, and that feels forced. There are moments of poignancy, but mostly the film feels inert and unremarkable, an off-the-shelf indie-spiration fable that employs a manipulatively cruel twist to move the story away from its inherent darkness and toward an uplifting climactic montage. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 12, 2011
From time to time the movie grabs you (though the music keeps repelling you). Taking stock and letting go-of superfluous things, of worn-out love-is a strong theme. But the progression of the script is like Nick's self-help program. We're familiar with the steps. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 12, 2011
A comparison to Carver's original story - called "Why Don't You Dance?," easily Googleable, and all of 1,600 words long - is instructive. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayMay 12, 2011
Writer-director Dan Rush could've approached this material in dozens of ways, but the way he chooses-turning it into an occasionally wry, ever-earnest dramedy-is precisely the wrong one. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesMay 12, 2011
As the phlegmatic, beer-guzzling protagonist, Will Ferrell manages to keep this rolling, though Rush's corny narrative devices (each of the minor characters receives an ironic gift at the end) couldn't be less consistent with Carver's stubborn minimalism. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedMay 10, 2011
Everything Must Go is the one for the Gipper-the movie in which he steps out of character for his own sake and works hard to lose Will Ferrell. The results are mixed, but I admire the guy for making an effort. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJ. HobermanMay 10, 2011
Everything Must Go, which is ostensibly set in Scottsdale, Arizona, has a generic resemblance to broken-heartland movies like "Up in the Air" and "Cedar Rapids," although this suburban meltdown is more depressed than either. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttMay 9, 2011
The film just doesn't mine enough humor or drama from this situation. Meanwhile most of the developments are wholly predictable. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichMay 10, 2011
By the time Nick decides to have an emotionally purgative yard sale-the primary holdover from the short story-all the adult ambiguities have been traded in for facile Indiewood profundities. Read full review
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