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
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
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