Curb Your Enthusiasm
HBO | Release Date: October 15, 2000
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
84
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 130 Critic Reviews
Positive:
121
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerJun 13, 2013
Season 2 Review: Last season, it took me a while to get used to the shambling pace imposed by the show's improv strategy, but by now, Curb's inventive riffing is like good jazz music. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineKris KingJul 8, 2011
Season 8 Review: It's a funny episode, boisterously so in parts, but it's difficult to shake the feeling that we've seen this before. After eight seasons, it's started to become too easy to spot Curb Your Enthusiasm's patented ironic twists and callback gags coming a mile away. Read full review
100
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJul 7, 2011
Season 8 Review: Now entering another wince-inducing season, Larry David proves again that he can mine gold over and over from the same idea. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJul 7, 2011
Season 8 Review: Still, even if Curb has lost some of its original wallop, it remains a great comedy of manners. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom GliattoJul 7, 2011
Season 8 Review: This eighth season finds him spending time in New York City, and the trip rejuvenates him. [18 Jul 2011, p.35]
100
NewsdayVerne GayJul 7, 2011
Season 8 Review: As twisted, and twistedly funny, as ever. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJul 6, 2011
Season 8 Review: Curb remains an acquired taste. Still, even if you never watched a minute of the previous seven seasons, you can tune in and get some laughs. Guilty and otherwise.
90
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 7 Review: I can attest there’s no such thing as too much Larry. Or, more to the point, too much Curb. Weak with laughter, I couldn’t be happier to welcome it back. Read full review
90
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 7 Review: You know you will laugh, but you know you will cringe. You know you will guffaw, but you'll also likely wince. It's hard to imagine comedy that's any edgier, without being topical, than this. Read full review
50
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 7 Review: I know there are a lot of people out there who can’t get enough of it, all the irritation and the narcissism and the racial tension and the yelling. But I’m not one of those people....Curb Your Enthusiasm leaves me just...well, a little bored. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily Nussbaum
Season 7 Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm takes its own internal dare and does somehow manage to make us care about this world-class sufferer of impacted pettiness, with his endless bickering about the thermostat, the etiquette of blow jobs in cars, the horrors of vacuum-packed plastic. Read full review
100
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Season 7 Review: Watching Jerry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards bounce off Larry David makes you realize what Curb had been missing: worthy opponents for Larry to argue and scheme with. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 5 Review: "Curb" may be ridiculously silly, but, unlike "Extras," its shenanigans are inventive. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 5 Review: It's a testament to Curb's cleverness that what's now rote--Larry offends, we cringe--can still be so surprising. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 5 Review: The show gets back to where it belongs: under Larry's expansive roof and inside his incessantly neurotic, disgracefully tactless and unerringly heartless skin. Read full review
90
SlateDana Stevens
Season 5 Review: A return to classic form. Read full review
90
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 5 Review: Remains bracingly rude and funny. Read full review
100
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 7 Review: Who else but Larry David could have imagined that a "Curb" largely without the glorious Cheryl Hines could conceivably be funnier? Or that her absence might work as a comedic plot foil for one of its major story arcs? He did, and that's genius. Read full review
80
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 7 Review: It's vintage Larry - bad behavior that only gets worse as the half-hour goes on - and it begins to set the stage for the season's main event, the "Seinfeld" reunion that may or may not bring about another even more important one. Read full review
80
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 7 Review: Four sitcoms - two returning and two premiering - start new seasons between tonight and Sunday. The news: In a TV environment that has seen a handful of decent comedies in the last 10 years, they're all funny. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 7 Review: With David's eccentricity permeating every aspect of the show, these new episodes feel more unrestrained than ever. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser
Season 7 Review: In the end, it all amounts to pretty much the same thing: a half hour with a self-sabotaging wit. Read full review
80
Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik
Season 7 Review: Reading that vague description, you are certain there is nothing in the show to make you laugh. But if you watch, I guarantee you will at least smile in spite of your better impulses. I'm sorry, but this is some of David's best work. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 7 Review: The David of Curb is so scathingly direct that he’s also quite funny; half the time he’s just saying things that the rest of us are too polite or repressed to say. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterGregg Kilday
Season 7 Review: There's reliable pleasure to be had in watching an increasingly embarrassed and panicky Larry rush from one self-created crisis to another until, wham, he steps on a figurative steel trap and suddenly realizes he'll probably have to gnaw off his leg if he's ever going to escape the hell he's made for himself. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 7 Review: There are a lot of good laughs here, and they are not the result of Larry David changing anything about the show or his character, who is the show. He'd still trip his mother to get the last seat on the bus. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 7 Review: Curb is filled with uncomfortable comedy, as always, but its humor stems from the relatable minutiae of everyday life, not unlike what viewers watched on "Seinfeld." Read full review
80
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 7 Review: Both “Bored to Death” and Curb Your Enthusiasm have heroes who are hell-bent on doing the impossible and are doomed to fail. And it’s impossible not to prefer them just as they are. Read full review
80
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 7 Review: The "Seinfeld" plot doesn't kick off until the season's third episode. The first two, meanwhile, are a reminder of what a brilliant show, and a deep cast of characters, Larry has built ever since he said goodbye to Jerry and company. Read full review
70
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 7 Review: Curb, meanwhile, stopped being appointment viewing for me a couple seasons ago, but it threatens to become so again. Read full review
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