This Is Where I Leave You
Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 19, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
20
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
39
Film.comJordan HoffmanSep 9, 2014
Tina Fey is in the film, for heaven’s sake, and I love her to pieces, but by now we know to expect something humdrum when she’s on a movie screen. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 18, 2014
This comedy about a death is a funeral for the audience. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonSep 18, 2014
And the jury's still very much out over whether Shawn Levy is an inept comedy director masquerading as an opportunistically dramatic one, or vice versa. Read full review
38
ObserverRex ReedSep 17, 2014
I can’t imagine any film starring Jane Fonda to be a total loss, but This Is Where I Leave You, a vulgar, inept and gruesomely contrived load of junk misleadingly labeled a comedy comes perilously close. Read full review
30
TheWrapWitney SeiboldSep 19, 2014
The excellent cast of This Is Where I Leave You cannot be faulted; all talented performers, they collectively make a constant effort to bring some sort of life to the limp script and uninspired direction. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 18, 2014
There is almost nothing here that you haven’t seen a dozen times before, and even the surprises feel flat and familiar. More dispiriting still is that this drab complacency is wrapped around messages of daring, honesty and spontaneity. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternSep 18, 2014
This is one of those overworked and generally airless comedies with a sitcom premise that can't sustain life. Read full review
30
Village VoiceCalum MarshSep 16, 2014
The most charitable thing you can say about This Is Where I Leave You is that it is resolutely innocuous — a nothing of a movie, neutered and sanitary. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadaySep 18, 2014
With a bench this deep, This Is Where I Leave You should have been a comedy of contemporary manners as wickedly funny as it is poignant. In the hands of Levy, it’s become just another forgettable example of low-stakes Hollywood hackwork at its most bland, banal and snipingly belligerent. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichSep 19, 2014
Probably the biggest sin in a movie filled with many is turning Fonda into a nymphomaniacal sight gag who makes Barbarella look like Gloria Steinem. Read full review
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