Jexi
Lionsgate | Release Date: October 11, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 11, 2019
While its mode of argumentation gets weaker as the standard-issue boy-meets-girl-meets-carpe-diem plot progresses, the appealing cast and brisk running time help “Jexi” not wear out its welcome. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloOct 11, 2019
Although the title is confounding and perhaps the movie’s worst misstep, it’s Byrne’s digitized and stilted delivery that earns the biggest laughs. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 12, 2019
Lucas and Moore write some whiplash funny lines, and since the film is just a throwaway, you can enjoy it on a trivial synthetic revenge-of-the-nerd level. Read full review
42
The VergeJesse HassengerOct 11, 2019
It would be easier to buy Jexi’s more intentional absurdities if its reality wasn’t so elastic, stretching to accommodate poorly staged large-scale slapstick. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 11, 2019
What we’re left with is a benign, artless, nothing of a movie that feels cobbled together with the same app-driven, gig-economy mentality that Phil is trying to disavow. Entire characters are ordered à la carte and forgotten about as soon as they leave our sight, as “Jexi” races across its story with the listlessness of someone blankly scrolling through their social media feeds. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubBeatrice LoayzaOct 11, 2019
Surely, bland cultural insights can’t defeat a film whose main attraction is the promise of stupid, raunchy fun? Reader, Jexi fails even at that, as it awkwardly struggles across its slim running time to land a single one of its existentially painful, seemingly bot-generated jokes. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeOct 11, 2019
Nearly everything misfires here — bizarrely so, since we can see where the laughs should come, how they would work, and how a more competent movie would get from A to Z. (To be fair, some jokes do land, just not as satisfyingly as you'd hope.) Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleZaki HasanOct 14, 2019
Jexi feels hopelessly out of step with the moment. Despite its subject matter, it’s a flip phone movie in a smart phone world. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 11, 2019
Devine? Still an acquired taste that defies acquisition. Read full review
20
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanOct 11, 2019
Although this wasteful effort from the “Bad Moms” team is uninspired in almost every regard, it does advance cinema in a single way: writers-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have figured out how to modernize one of the most traditional and apparently still essential Hollywood tropes: the Crazy Bitch. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersOct 10, 2019
Jexi is such a dumb, lazy film that it might have even the most ardent cinephile reaching for their device, ready to defend their defection to the dark side when faced with this clunker of a comedy. Read full review
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