Girl Most Likely
Lionsgate | Release Date: July 19, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
18
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 18, 2013
For all the well-traveled roads in Girl Most Likely, Berman and Pulcini bring a sweetness to the material that suits Wiig’s offbeat talents. We know we’re being played, but really, if we’re enjoying it, why complain? Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnJul 19, 2013
Whether Girl Most Likely intentionally satirizes its upending of conventions or suffers from a half-assed screenplay, the resulting hodgepodge at least livens up a clichéd premise. Read full review
65
NPRElla TaylorJul 19, 2013
A likable but warmed-over comedy. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyOct 5, 2013
Occasionally, the cast rises above the material. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 25, 2013
A strange movie, in that it has the atmosphere of a comedy and some extreme characters set up to be comical, but there are really no funny scenes. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 19, 2013
The whole enterprise comes across like a first draft. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayJul 18, 2013
A picaresque romance of self-discovery that delivers a near-constant flow of small delights until veering too far into screwball preposterousness. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianMarc MohanJul 18, 2013
Bening and Dillon both play roles they could act in their sleep, though it's still moderately fun to watch them do so. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJul 18, 2013
It works here and there. And then it doesn't. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie OgleJul 18, 2013
The movie does miraculously end up making good use of a couple of running jokes, and the cast soldiers on, though the laughs are meager. But mostly, Girl Most Likely is a case of good actors in serious need of worthwhile material. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJul 18, 2013
Girl Most Likely goes a little bit wrong in nearly every scene, its stridently quirky characters never quite making sense together in the same universe, let alone the same movie. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJul 17, 2013
Whatever their other gifts, they cannot find the fizz here and can never get Wiig to commit to the sort of film that she, even when she was making it, must have realized was beneath her in her post-”Bridesmaids” glory. Read full review
50
The PlaylistSimon AbramsJul 16, 2013
Wiig really shines in the film, proving that her finely honed comic timing can make a character work even when the film ultimately doesn't. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jul 17, 2013
The blame belongs most plainly with Michelle Morgan’s script, which requires this gifted comedian to play straight woman to a supporting carnival of Indiewood types. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillSep 26, 2013
Odd zingers and residual eccentricities (a Whit Stillman cameo, anyone?) stand as traces of the blast it might have been, but this cast surely signed on in anticipation of many more laughs than there are in the final cut. Read full review
40
EmpireOlly RichardsSep 23, 2013
A thin soup of weak jokes and contrived drama. Read full review
40
Total FilmNeil SmithJul 19, 2013
Can’t decide if it’s a broad farce or a poignant portrait. Small wonder then, that it falls short on both counts, failing to earn either Bridesmaids-sized laughs or nods of recognition. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesGlenn WhippJul 18, 2013
A tonal jumble, veering between forced farce and tired, rom-com beats, with little feeling real or true. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisJul 18, 2013
A forced, laugh-challenged comedy with an appealing if not terribly well-used cast. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJul 17, 2013
Tiny and well-intentioned but dramatically inert and sham-kooky, Girl Most Likely is for Kristen Wiig completists only, and even they may squirm at spending a whole movie waiting for her character to pull her head out of her ass. Read full review
40
Time OutSam AdamsJul 16, 2013
The keenest irony is that Imogene’s fake suicide note is the most convincing thing she’s ever written — which makes perverse sense since Girl Most Likely is DOA. Read full review
38
ObserverRex ReedJul 23, 2013
The insurmountable problem is that Imogene is not a very original, dynamic or charismatic character, and Kristen Wiig is not a very original, dynamic or charismatic actress. Nobody in this movie is really appealing enough to be much fun. The state of New Jersey should sue. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 19, 2013
One doesn’t really want to beat up on Girl Most Likely, because it means well and everyone in it appears to be having a good time. But so many things are wrong with the film, from a script that’s bright but never sharp to the editing that leaves scenes hanging flaccidly in the breeze. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJul 19, 2013
The desperate straining for laughs isn't nearly so off-putting as the abrupt tonal shift Girl Most Likely makes as it trudges toward its conclusion. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJul 19, 2013
A forgettable movie with a forgettable title about forgettable characters I’d just as soon as forget. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigJul 18, 2013
A failure from start to finish. Read full review
35
Film.comJordan HoffmanJul 14, 2013
Hollow, uninteresting and false. Read full review
30
The DissolveScott TobiasJul 17, 2013
Wiig’s new comedy sulks limply along with her, unable to bring the kind of energy that might complement her tendency to underplay every scene. Read full review
25
New York PostSara StewartJul 18, 2013
I only laughed once, and it was when Whit Stillman made a cameo to be snubbed by the newly self-actualized Imogene. But it was mostly in disbelief; pretentious or not, Stillman represents a caliber of smart writing that’s wholly absent from Girl Most Likely. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJul 17, 2013
If the first 90 minutes of Girl Most Likely grate and disappoint, wait until the final 10 or so, when directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini try covering their maniacally depressive tracks like cats in a litter box. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 18, 2013
Bening and Dillon are equally misused, and the rest of the cast is frankly just annoying. Like Imogene’s early promise, Girl Most Likely is likely to be forgotten quickly. The sooner the better. Read full review
20
Village VoiceNick SchagerJul 17, 2013
Girl Most Likely strands Kristen Wiig in a dreadful, disingenuous city-vs.-suburbs comedy that mercilessly mocks New Jersey before turning around and celebrating its provincial trashiness over the hoity-toity snootiness of Manhattan. Read full review
0
Slant MagazineCalum MarshJul 13, 2013
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's dismal, D-grade sitcom isn't fit to lick the boots of Whit Stillman's four films. Read full review
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