The Layover
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: September 1, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
15
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
0
Negative:
7
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RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzSep 1, 2017
Maybe the heart of the problem is that Kate and Meg's behavior doesn't track with the practical realities of lifelong, functioning friendship between (most) women as experienced by...well, any functioning adult who lives in the world. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 31, 2017
The Layover is an appalling movie. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 31, 2017
Yes, it is a movie. But just barely so. I’d say it’s more like an excruciating, embarrassing, profoundly unfunny, poorly shot and astonishingly tone-deaf screech-fest featuring some of the least charismatic performances this side of one of those dreadful “reality” shows. Read full review
20
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 31, 2017
The movie’s notion of fun comes to involve an unclean rest stop, slipped pills and an eminently foreseeable conclusion. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineDerek SmithAug 28, 2017
William H. Macy's The Layover was clearly conceived and written by men who have no interest in approaching female friendships with any degree of complexity, curiosity, or respect. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersAug 31, 2017
Second-tier airline safety videos are more entertaining than this fourth-rate comedy. Flight attendants on Southwest’s less-traveled routes are far funnier than the cast here. Watching a lonely suitcase circle a baggage claim conveyor belt is more diverting. Read full review
0
Village VoiceChris PackhamAug 31, 2017
It’s completely unfair to compare these characters to (say) Abbi and Ilana on Broad City, funny women who derive dignity from their friendship. But that’s a show written, created, and performed by women, while this film’s creative trust is a clueless, retrograde sausage festivus. Read full review
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