Thanks for Sharing
Lionsgate | Release Date: September 20, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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14
Mixed:
21
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
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
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