Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Focus Features | Release Date: June 22, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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21
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 25, 2012
The whole movie is a good try. Read full review
60
MovielineAlison WillmoreJun 20, 2012
Combines a deviously tragicomic take on the approaching annihilation of mankind with a irritatingly unconvincing and unnecessary love story. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJun 25, 2012
As Seeking a Friend for the End of the World crawls toward its sentimental finale, you're rooting for that asteroid to get here, quick. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 21, 2012
After a sharp and promising start, she (Ms. Scafaria) allows the movie to collapse into a mild, lump-in-the-throat romantic comedy that is not made significantly more urgent or interesting by the prospect of global calamity. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyJun 21, 2012
Scafaria's movie never catches fire. The bad news: The end of the world comes with a whimper. Worse: And two wimps. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 21, 2012
Carell's performance is enjoyable but safe, and while he and Knightley play well enough together, there's no genuine chemistry - no zap to convince us these two deserve to be the last lovers on Earth. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 21, 2012
I never rooted for them as a couple, never felt a chemistry in their bond. And in a romance, even one with tragic notes, that really is the end of the world. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 21, 2012
What it doesn't have is a way of making sense of its comic and dramatic strains, together, in the same movie. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 21, 2012
Starts imploding long before the massive asteroid hurtling toward Earth is due to deliver annihilation. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMark HolcombJun 19, 2012
By turns bizarrely affectless and then prattlingly manic, much like its dual protagonists. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 19, 2012
The casting is spectacularly wrong, and even on its own scant merits, writer-director Lorene Scafaria's screenplay has little insight into apocalyptic licentiousness, barring a tart line or two. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeJun 19, 2012
The end of the world can't come fast enough in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a disastrously dull take on the disaster-movie formula. Read full review
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