Thanks for Sharing
Lionsgate | Release Date: September 20, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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14
Mixed:
21
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 19, 2013
It’s surprisingly wise, funny and affecting, thanks in part to a sensitive script, and in part to a strong ensemble cast. Read full review
80
Village VoiceInkoo KangSep 17, 2013
A winsome mix of funny, harrowing, and smart, it's most commendable for making characters who are addicted to bad behavior—and who refuse to blame themselves for it—somehow exceedingly sympathetic. Read full review
80
Time OutSam AdamsSep 17, 2013
What makes things different is the way Blumberg strikes an assured balance between dour downward spirals and “work the program” uplift, gifting these flawed people with both a sense of hope and the knowledge that it will never be enough. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerSep 20, 2013
It’s a major performance (Ruffalo) in a minor movie. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 19, 2013
It’s a tribute to the script by Stuart Blumberg and Matt Winston, the directorial aplomb of Blumberg and the genuine performances of the cast that most of the time, we care about these people, we believe their problems are real and we want them to get the help they so desperately need. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 18, 2013
The movie has its heart and humor in the right place, and there's no "Shame" in that. Read full review
75
IndieWireJason AndersonJun 28, 2013
Though Blumberg treats the topic with admirable frankness, the film’s insights would’ve had more impact if he wasn’t so quick to hop to the next storyline whenever matters get especially thorny. Read full review
72
NPRTrey GrahamSep 20, 2013
And yet: Thanks for Sharing is such a relaxed, good-humored movie that it's tough to complain about its tendency to ... well, overshare. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 22, 2013
Thanks for Sharing is never quite crazy or funny enough to transcend its “disease-of-month” template. The title turns out to not be ironic — a mixed blessing. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 19, 2013
See Steve McQueen’s “Shame” (2011) if you want a sense of how destructive this sickness can be to the soul. See Thanks for Sharing if you want to know what people can do about it. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 19, 2013
Thanks for Sharing is all over the place trying to find a tone, but it knows where its heart is. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaSep 19, 2013
Ultimately, it's the romance that feels forced and phony, not the group meetings, the confessions, the anguished moments alone. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSep 19, 2013
Although the characters are three-dimensional, the simultaneous crises and last-act resolutions are a little too neat for a movie about the messiness of life. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreSep 17, 2013
Thanks for Sharing is a bit of a head-snapper in its tone changes, stumbling into flippancy. The light moments are appreciated, but they do tend to undercut the sobriety of it all. Read full review
60
Total FilmKate StablesOct 5, 2013
Despite Gwynnie and her lingerie-clad lap-dancing, this sober, issue-based dramedy is preachy and a tad soapy, rather than provocative. Fine acting, though. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinOct 4, 2013
Tonally the film is all over the rink, but it leaves you more convinced and entertained than you’d expect. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen HoldenSep 19, 2013
The movie never transcends a screenwriting formula that makes you uncomfortably aware of the machinery driving it all. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'HehirSep 19, 2013
The singer Pink, also known as Alecia Moore, here plays Dede, one of the group’s only female members, and the connection between Dede and Neil, which at first stretches credibility to the breaking point, may be the best thing about “Thanks for Sharing.” Read full review
60
The DissolveTasha RobinsonSep 18, 2013
The many-threaded approach makes it feel narratively rich and sophisticated, but it also shorthands and shortchanges some of the most interesting characters. Read full review
60
EmpireAnna SmithSep 9, 2013
The Kids Are All Right writer Stuart Blumberg's first directorial effort is a frothy affair with typically strong turns from Ruffalo and Paltrow. Read full review
60
The GuardianCatherine ShoardJun 28, 2013
Shame was erotic compulsion turned into opera, full of sombre vibrato. Thanks for Sharing is probably the more realistic, as well as more mainstream, and there's a generous pinch of very funny lines, mostly bestowed on Robbins. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 18, 2013
Oddly, counterintuitively even, what’s most endearing about the film is how middle-of-the-road it is. While 2011’s "Shame" treated the same subject with too much seriousness, and next week’s "Don Jon" treats it with too little, Thanks For Sharing acknowledges that sex addiction, like most other problems in life, can be a source of both suffering and humor. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyOct 17, 2013
Thanks for Sharing might best be described as being like Steve McQueen’s sex-addiction drama, "Shame," if it were rewritten by Neil Simon at his most schmaltzy. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneSep 27, 2013
Thanks for Sharing is worth it, because of Pink. [30 Sept. 2013, p.85]
50
RogerEbert.comDan CallahanSep 20, 2013
The tone of Thanks for Sharing is somewhat similar to the tone of "The Kids Are All Right": earnest, modestly exploratory, definitely smart, but extremely judgmental toward some of its people. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSep 19, 2013
The characters are mostly likable, and despite some comic sallies the film takes a compassionate stance toward them. But it feels like a glossy, overly neat take on what should be an explosive topic. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeySep 19, 2013
Thanks for Sharing is a bit like the recovery scene it digs into — filled with intoxicating highs and dispiriting lows. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianMarc MohanSep 19, 2013
Blumberg tries to split the difference and ends up with a movie that wants us to make us laugh and cry, but fails to do either. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSep 14, 2013
Is an exploration of sex addiction, in all its different manifestations, the new flavor of the week in contemporary American cinema? Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatySep 11, 2013
This tone-deaf misfire can't decide whether it wants to be a broad comedy doling out raunchy slapstick laughs or a serious drama about our porn-saturated age of sensory overload. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeJun 28, 2013
Collectively, Thanks for Sharing boasts more than enough personalities to keep things interesting, but it lacks the casual spontaneity to make these characters’ journeys anything other than predictable. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJun 28, 2013
Too much of what happens as the characters undergo their various brushes with failure and redemption feels predetermined, slapping what aims to be a much savvier film with a debilitating touch of the formulaic. Read full review
42
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthJun 28, 2013
Never quite as deep or probing as it thinks it is, Thanks For Sharing is an unsatisfying tease. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSep 19, 2013
Sometimes, less is more. Case in point: Thanks for Sharing, a film that’s a little too eager to be ID’d as a “sex addiction dramedy.” As a result, solidly grounded performances from almost all the cast members wind up playing second fiddle to navel-gazing. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSep 18, 2013
It’s a bold and certainly credible move, but the execution is something of a belly flop. Thanks for Sharing isn’t really about a disease, only the cure, and that bias makes it a plausible picture of the Friend of Bill community-based recovery, but kind of a sham as a portrait of actual human beings. Read full review
35
Film.comLaremy LegelJun 28, 2013
Thanks for Sharing can’t quite find its footing as either a drama or a comedy, and near the end it’s actively sliding off the rails. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithSep 30, 2013
This comedy is cringe-inducingly lame and the dramatic turns are visible as far in advance as utility poles on the prairie. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezSep 19, 2013
Director Stuart Blumberg’s movie, which features a surprisingly starry cast, comes off as superficial and trite. Read full review
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