It's a Disaster
Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: April 12, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
4
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlApr 9, 2013
The story's outline may be familiar, but its emphasis and quality are not. Read full review
83
The PlaylistKatie WalshApr 7, 2013
The film's got one of the cleverest, and most satisfying ambiguous endings of any film all year. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesApr 17, 2013
Berger’s low-key, likable ensemble film flares with brilliance in its framing concept. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesJim EmersonApr 17, 2013
The movie’s funniest touches are quiet flashes of character, expertly timed and nimbly played by a deft ensemble. It’s a Disaster is consistently funny, but you wince more often than you laugh out loud. It’s like a Christopher Guest improvisational farce with the volume turned down to 5. Read full review
75
NPRScott TobiasApr 11, 2013
Cross may not earn the broad recognition he deserves for his performance in It's a Disaster, a droll apocalypse comedy of exceedingly modest scale and even more modest commercial appeal. But it's still a master class in how to play the straight man right. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinApr 10, 2013
It’s A Disaster is lively and assured before a third-act twist takes the film in an even more bracingly bleak direction. The twist is one tonal shift too many, but the film otherwise manages to find the levity, as well as the pathos, in the prospect of total annihilation. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnApr 7, 2013
Writer-director Todd Berger, improving his technique with his second feature-length credit following "The Scenesters," combines enough energetic performances with charged wit to make this one doomsday comedy that earns the right to its familiar backdrop. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenApr 7, 2013
The script excels at character-driven laughs, cerebral yet goofy, without resorting to sitcom stereotypes or genitalia-focused stupidity. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeApr 7, 2013
Audiences may not care about this gang when the party starts, but once the dust settles, you’ve gotta admit, they made for pretty good company. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenApr 18, 2013
The humour may not be wickedly black, but once in a while it’s amusingly beige. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 18, 2013
Quirky, funny and a little claustrophobic (by design), it’s confident enough in what it’s trying to accomplish to take the chance on the title. And what he’s trying to accomplish is ambitious. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 11, 2013
The movie elicits knowing smiles more than laughs, even as it reveals a boundless observational awareness about the beefs and slights that, for the small-minded, must feel like everyday Armageddons. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineTina HassanniaApr 5, 2013
The film flirts with big ideas about adult relationships, but fails to locate any gravitas about its characters' existential or psychological crises. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanApr 11, 2013
Berger’s got some clever ideas, but he does not push far in exploring them. And aside from Cross, there is virtually no one to like among these self-involved suburbanites. After an hour alone with them, we can’t help wishing The End would just arrive. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 11, 2013
The movie lurches from the improbably silly to the drearily so, while the characters remain so emotionally and psychologically divorced from life that they might as well be zombies or sitcom stick figures. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickApr 11, 2013
As far as I’m concerned, death couldn’t arrive quickly enough for these eight stereotypically self-absorbed Los Angelenos gathered for Sunday brunch at which the hosts (Blaise Miller, Erinn Hayes) plan to announce the demise of their marriage. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichApr 9, 2013
Berger’s script is little more than a series of contrived comic vignettes that prevent the actors from creating believable characters, forcing them to contort to fit the low-rent farce. Read full review
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