They Came Together
Lionsgate | Release Date: June 27, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
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15
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9
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3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonJun 24, 2014
They Came Together is one joke repeated until you're broken down by the giggles. It shouldn't work as well as it does, and wouldn't if it weren't perfectly cast with America's Comedy Sweethearts. Read full review
83
The PlaylistJames RocchiJan 27, 2014
It knows how to mock cliché big things, like jokes about set-dressing and music video montages; it’s also wise about small matters, right down to the font and the framing device. Read full review
80
Film.comJan 27, 2014
They Came Together is a very fast, often very funny riff on a very tired Hollywood formula. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyStephan LeeJun 27, 2014
Most of the jokes land bluntly – ”This is a cliché!” – but tight pacing and a killer cast, which also includes Ed Helms and Christopher Meloni, make up for the inconsistent gags. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 26, 2014
Thanks to a smart screenplay, direction that perfectly captures the tone of modern rom-coms and two of the most engaging comedic leads working in movies and TV today, “They Came Together” is more entertaining and (in its own insane way) more endearing than two-thirds of the legitimate romantic comedies I’ve seen over the last two decades. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 26, 2014
The film's most engaging character is not actually human: It's Manhattan, of course, a point made repeatedly over that protracted dinner by the voluble lovebirds. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 26, 2014
Occasionally very funny, and moderately funny the rest of the time. In mathematical terms that adds up to pretty funny or "funny enough." Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jun 25, 2014
Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious. Read full review
75
HitfixDrew McWeenyJun 24, 2014
There are probably funnier satires out there, but They Came Together is laser accurate in the way it skewers its targets. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJesse CataldoJun 23, 2014
What results is chaotic but ultimately focused, bound by an intense devotion to disassembling genre and narrative standards. Read full review
75
IndieWireRobert Cameron FowlerJan 27, 2014
In terms of its pure laughter quotient, They Came Together constantly delivers. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJun 27, 2014
Taking pretty much every rom-com trope and distilling it into highly concentrated ridiculousness, Wain’s film is both a takedown and a tribute: As with his summer-camp-movie spoof "Wet Hot American Summer," you walk away with a renewed love for the genre. Read full review
70
VarietyScott FoundasJan 27, 2014
A lively comic jamboree that’s sometimes smarter than it is funny and hits about as often as it misses, but is, on balance, a good deal of fun. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 26, 2014
Larky, witty and sometimes even wise, this spoof on every rom-com ever made is less a fully realized film than an extended skit, a series of set pieces that poke gentle and sometimes transgressively crude fun at the tropes of girl-meets-boy that have enchanted and addled audiences for generations. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 24, 2014
Poehler and Rudd riff and banter like old marrieds, and make even the cheesiest lines funny, make even the cliched dating montages set to syrupy pop music feel — if not fresh and new — at least funny enough to mock. Read full review
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