Why Stop Now
IFC Films | Release Date: August 17, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
4
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88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 15, 2012
Why Stop Now takes large themes much manhandled as movie cliches, and treats them with care and respect. It likes the characters. So did I. Read full review
67
The PlaylistGabe ToroAug 14, 2012
It's well-acted, certainly, though these performances belong in a film with sharper pacing, one that breathes easily. But, this directorial debut from Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner breathes like a frequent smoker: in fits and starts, peppered with coughs and dry heaves. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithAug 17, 2012
Acquires a little vigor and some fun from Tracy Morgan as a friendly drug dealer who lives with his mom. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasAug 15, 2012
Slips into the no-man's land between screwball and melodrama, squandering both the comic opportunities of an irrational search for drugs and the raw desperation of a piano prodigy who's held captive by his mother's dysfunction. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 16, 2012
Why Stop Now? feels trapped in the limbo between comedy and drama where many indies gamely venture, but from which few emerge with any resonance. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen HoldenAug 16, 2012
Once Why Stop Now? has exhausted its bag of tricks, there is a screeching of brakes as it approaches the edge of the cliff. Having expended all that stamina, the film collapses from exhaustion and settles for an abrupt, feel-good ending that is as perfunctory as it is preposterous. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerAug 13, 2012
Shifting between wacky situation comedy and somber familial drama, Why Stop Now? isn't invested enough in either mode to convincingly pull off its genre-hopping ambitions. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 16, 2012
This comic drama tries too hard to serve up a slice of manic life, but Eisenberg, along with Tracy Morgan and Isiah Whitlock Jr. as the affable druggies, provides some spark. Read full review
20
Time OutDavid FearAug 14, 2012
Nothing - script, performances, comedy, drama - works in the slightest. To answer the title: Where do we start? Read full review
0
Village VoiceSimon AbramsAug 14, 2012
An unbearable 90-minute trip with a trio of loud, needy egotists. Read full review
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