Love the Coopers
CBS Films | Release Date: November 13, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
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4
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10
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 30, 2015
Jessie Nelson’s film sells itself well. There’s care in the details, and the characters often feel like actual people. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle SmithNov 13, 2015
Unfortunately, director Jessie Nelson (“I Am Sam”) gradually turns the script into marzipan. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTom RussoNov 12, 2015
Enjoy the sense of never quite knowing when the movie is going to stick another pin in its balloon of sincerity, and you’ll like the Coopers well enough. Read full review
63
San Francisco ChronicleLindsey BahrNov 12, 2015
Perhaps it's the soothing, storybook quality of Steve Martin's narration, or the predictable third act turn, but Love the Coopers does come together in the end. Read full review
58
TheWrapTim AppeloNov 13, 2015
The vignettes sometimes resonate with the viewer but don’t really connect into a plot, there are too many characters with too many stories and pretty good flashbacks, and some of the jokes are impossible to laugh out loud at unless you’re a highly trained and paid actor. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelNov 12, 2015
Watching people be miserable with each other for the movie's run-time does not always make for a pleasant experience. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyDevan CogganNov 12, 2015
Even with such a talented ensemble, Love The Coopers’ convoluted narrative and overreliance on Christmas clichés keeps it from sparking any real holiday magic. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Daniel NemanNov 12, 2015
Most. Depressing. Christmas. Movie. Ever. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerNov 11, 2015
A movie that should be punctuated like a Christmas card sign-off but instead, losing a comma, becomes an off-putting directive. How Robert De Niro didn’t make it to this set is a mystery for the ages. Read full review
40
EmpireAnna SmithNov 30, 2015
There’s too much going on and too little character development for this to become a Christmas classic. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanNov 15, 2015
Amid all this holiday melancholia, Wilde bursts into the film with an intensity that feels held over from another, better movie. Read full review
40
Time OutTom HuddlestonNov 13, 2015
The film's final moments, in which we discover the source of the film’s intrusive, patronizing voiceover, are simply vile. The result is like stuffing yourself with Christmas pudding: sweet, glutinous, a bit too much. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerNov 12, 2015
The film is occasionally amusing but rarely feels genuine. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisNov 11, 2015
It’s a frustrating thing to unsnarl. Straddling the thorny fence of dramedy, Love the Coopers is a sometimes too serious, often not funny entry in this year’s tra-la-la movie sweepstakes. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaNov 13, 2015
The more curdled-than-cuddly holiday film already had offended this former copy editor even before I entered the theater. Its crime? The lack of punctuation in its name. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonNov 12, 2015
Sloppy and haphazard where it should be calculatedly chaotic, it can't ever seem to settle on an appropriate tone. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittNov 12, 2015
True, most Christmas flicks tend toward the trite and predictable naturally but they just don’t have to be quite this insufferable. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 12, 2015
It’s all so hackneyed, so overfamiliar and formulaic. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 12, 2015
The celebrity soup that is Love the Coopers is, indeed, a mess, the kind in which the screenplay by Steven Rogers...is made more chaotic by Jessie Nelson's tonally smeary direction. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschNov 12, 2015
A Christmas comedy of numbing tedium and tackiness. Read full review
30
VarietyNick SchagerNov 12, 2015
Decked out in the usual tinsel-and-mistletoe trappings, the film lurches awkwardly between gloominess and giddiness, never hitting the boisterously bittersweet groove it seeks. Read full review
20
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekNov 16, 2015
What a difference a comma makes — or would make, in the case of Jessie Nelson's lumpy, wretchedly unfunny Love the Coopers, whose title commands us to love people it's impossible even to like. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Nov 13, 2015
Got your holiday turkey yet? Well, don't worry, Diane Keaton and John Goodman have one waiting for you at the movie theater. Read full review
20
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 12, 2015
Director Jessie Nelson shoots it all like a Hallmark card that comes to life, which sounds like a cliche, which it is, which is the point. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternNov 12, 2015
Watching this film is like being trapped inside a snow globe — no air, no warmth, no life — while the death of drama unfolds. Read full review
0
Washington PostJen ChaneyNov 12, 2015
Love the Coopers is one of the most jumbled, tonally misguided holiday movies in recent memory. It is an insult to tidings of comfort as well as joy, and a complete waste of the time and talents of its ensemble cast. Read full review
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