I Do... Until I Don't
The Film Arcade | Release Date: September 1, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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5
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10
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonAug 30, 2017
A play-it-safe film, with its chaos a little too controlled. But Bell’s examination of the institution of marriage has it insights, and there are laughs. Read full review
72
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpSep 6, 2017
Maybe this isn’t the sophomore picture we’d hoped for, but it’s sharp and insightful regardless. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesTom KeoghAug 31, 2017
Bell can sculpt a funny moment to polished realization, but deprive it of oxygen at the same time. It’s not until late in the film’s third act that a different feeling emerges, a looser hand that provides room for characters to be more warm and human than pieces in a constricted design. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneRick BentleyAug 31, 2017
Atits gooey center, I Do ... Until I Don't is like vanilla cake. It is sweet, but generally there's nothing that memorable about it. Read full review
63
Boston GlobePeter KeoughAug 30, 2017
After Lake Bell’s smart, unconventional debut, “In a World. . .” (2013), her new film, I Do . . . Until I Don’t (she apparently likes ellipses in her titles), is disappointingly ordinary. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 2, 2017
The movie’s satirical backbone softens and dissolves, and watching it go wrong might make you realize it wasn’t that good to begin with — that Bell had been getting by on energy and the audience’s goodwill. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryAug 31, 2017
The story often feels like a collection of (so-so) jokes, forcibly strung together in a tenuous narrative. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 31, 2017
It’s a big disappointment, not least because of its talented cast, and Bell’s obvious talents as a filmmaker. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerAug 30, 2017
The outline of a snappy relationship comedy is here, and Bell is talented enough to make one. Maybe next time she’ll commit to it. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayAug 27, 2017
It’s hard to tell who’s being lampooned and who’s being treated with sincerity at any given point. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 8, 2017
Bell has a beguiling, big-grin screen presence. And her ability to charm a cast into taking on her projects is admirable. Charming a script-doctor or two who could joke the films up would be a big help. Read full review
42
The PlaylistEli FineAug 29, 2017
Disengaged and detached, the film’s greatest crime may be its inability to make any kind of impression. Read full review
40
Time OutZach ShevichSep 4, 2017
Bell’s film ends up stuck between being a standard audience-pleaser and something more subversive. For a movie about marriage, you wish it would commit one way or the other. Read full review
40
TheWrapTodd GilchristAug 30, 2017
Where “In A World…” felt intimate and focused, delightfully dysfunctional but relentlessly hopeful, “I Do” is noisy and meandering. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiAug 30, 2017
Despite some clever writing (Widespread Panic jokes never go out of style), a game cast, and a funny critique of the ethics of documentary filmmaking, I Do … Until I Don’t never rises above the trite characters and well-worn scenarios it depicts. Best to get the annulment papers ready. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 31, 2017
A movie that has neither a coherent point nor an authentic character. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 31, 2017
Bell jettisons any possibility for radical ideals or emotional poignancy in favor of a hackneyed rom-com ending tacked onto a movie that’s both stale and unpleasantly madcap. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comNick AllenSep 1, 2017
It’s baffling, more than anything, as to how all of this talent could create something so uncharacteristic to their collective abilities to make us laugh, or feel something. Read full review
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