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Friends with Money
2006
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Positive Reviews
43
Negative reviews
8
Average Rating
3.2
/5
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4.5
Meanwhile, her pal Jennifer Aniston wanders through life in a stoned depressive haze and enters into an ill advised fling with a cheerfully superficia ..
Av Club
2.0
There is, indeed, a discernible clarity to the actual filmmaking here, and an attractive feminine wit evident in the artistry.But there is also a manu ..
EW
2.5
The movie lacks the warmth and edge of the two previous features.
Rogerebert
4.0
As a creator of characters, Holofcener has strong instincts for emblematic situations and telling habits, yet she takes a reticent approach to develop ..
Time Out
1.5
Yet The Washington Post found that just four adults have been convicted for failing to lock up the guns used.
3.5
Sure, female insecurity is the bread and butter of chick flicks, but Holofcener doesnt make chick flicks.
2.5
Its so effortless and pleasant to spend time with the characters (and the actresses) in Friends With Money that it seems churlish to notice that the m ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Taken as it comes this is very amusingly observed, playing like a string of fairly sharp, funny improv skits.
4.0
The movie is perfectly cast, with the best big screen performance by Aniston since The Good Girl.
Cinema Blend
4.0
The other disappointments of this period in love, work, family and level of accomplishment, and loss of beauty and youth are merely variations on this ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
The episodic comedy of manners is filled with charm, sensitivity and insightful observations about the things money can do to make one feel they have ..
Sover
3.8
The material is alternately rich or thin, depending on the performers aptitude for mastering Holofceners neurotically funny dialogue.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
Despite the cliched script, Friends with Money is entertaining, well acted and, thankfully, short (just 88 minutes).It will attract a femme audience w ..
3.5
The film is likable, with some funny moments and recognizable human conflicts.
Usa Today
3.1
Lovely & Amazing doesnt contain much in the way of plot, but the movie generally works thanks to the outstanding performances and filmmaker Nicole Hol ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
All four represent Holofceners view of the modern American woman: flawed, beautiful and goddess like.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
The first rate cast lights into Holofceners clever lines with unrestrained relish.
News Review
4.0
But the films real power is in the way it makes us examine the choices weve made along the way.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
Aniston ditches her perky romcom persona and delivers a downbeat but likeable and surprisingly moving performance that anchors the film.
View London
2.5
Still, for all its Sundance cool factor, the latest from this gifted director glances off the viewer without leaving much impact. Erica Abeel
Film Journal International ..
3.1
All the players in this first rate cast, however, do have their moments.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.8
Friends With Money is another finely etched, intelligently acted social comedy from Nicole Holofcener, whose first two features were Walking and Talki ..
Boston
4.5
In a low key way, its a very fine performance. Poker faced Aniston may be, but everything Olivia needs to say is right there in her eyes.
Smh
3.5
Theres a good bit of wit to the film, some solid performances and a great deal of clever writing, but nothing substantial.
Mountain X
3.8
They thought they were saving for their kids education but were shocked to learn their money was gone The new owner of RESP dealer Heritage Education ..
Toronto Star
2.0
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Emanuellevy
4.0
It is an ensemble comedy drama which could do for fortysomething women what Sideways did for fortysomething men.
Eye For Film
4.0
This is the kind of script actors love, and the fine ensemble cast nails the nuances of their vastly different characters beautifully.
3.0
Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack The Basics: Aniston, playing seriously against type, is a depressed stoner maid wit ..
Movies
4.0
Each appears to be living The American Dream while inwardly falling to pieces.
Bbc
3.5
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La ..
Calendar Live
3.0
The actresses work well together, sharing pitch perfect timing and wringing empathy out of women who in other situations might not be very likable.
Seattle Pi
2.5
While this may seem horribly politically incorrect, if there has ever been a chick flick in the worst sense of the word, this is it.
Tony Medley
3.1
But its still a pleasant enough sound to earn a recommendation.Unfortunately, the movie is 90 minutes long.
Movie Habit
3.0
We, who are living here at this time and place know its merely a comedy and wink along with the pretense.Merely
Varia Gate
3.1
Fortunately, since this movie focuses so strongly on characters rather than plot, all four of the leads do a great job.
Three Movie Buffs
3.8
But a competitor is asking for decreases that could be almost as big.
Kansas City
3.8
And the direction as well.The cast is sensational, so its no surprise that the acting is perfect.
Ross Anthony
2.5
We need more of the good stuff, and less of the mundane, since this is a movie instead of real life.
Waffle Movies
4.0
Holofcener gets the milieu beguilingly right, but the abrupt ending leaves you wanting more.
News Week
1.3
Youre beautiful and make gazoodles of money.Why cant you just snap out of it
Chron
1.0
This is a movie from which genuine humour and insight have been removed like caffeine from coffee.The result is a thin and meagre brew.
Film Guardian
3.1
So its not a bad idea at all to update the concept of envious friendship in modern Southern California.
Denver Post
3.5
It just floats alongan agreeable comedy of manners with actors you like to hang out with.
Ny Mag
3.5
But its tightly scripted, well acted and mostly avoids sentimentality, making it one of the best movies of its kind in the last couple of years.
Future Movies
3.0
Intent on exploring the inescapable complications that arise when close friends exist in different economic strata, the director whose prior Lovely an ..
Nicks Chager
2.0
But what it does has is heart.I guess this is the type of film they like to label as a slice of life.
Reel Talk Online
4.4
And while humor is definitely part of the mix these four are smart, funny women audience members expecting fluffy comedy (of the high gloss sort in wh ..
Seattle Times
3.8
Amusing and astute, a smart observation on the ups and downs of female friendships.
Miami
3.5
When it can serve as tag for bothand, it is no wonder the concept of the chick flick remains elusory.Cinematic torture guys endure in order to score s ..
Cine Passion
1.5
If its too much, youre inflated and its obscene what youre making, and you feel ashamed.
World Socialist Web Site
3.0
Holofcener has a gift for wonderfully oblivious and in denial characters, and the subtly ridiculous situations that such characters get themselves int ..
About Film
3.5
The whole world is dick flick hell, dude.Find a new flippant dismissal.
The Coast
3.0
Theres rarely a moment in this film that feels wrong, barely a moment wasted, and yet it all drifts rather serenely to a stop, with little to mark its ..
Toxic Universe
3.8
At its best, the film approximates eavesdropping on the talk that can follow the exit of one friend from a room full of good pals, all of them caring, ..
Sac Ticket
0.5
t combines a naked desire to please the audience with a try anything approach of the kind that made Wedding Crashers such a desperate stab at entertai ..
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