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This is Where I Leave You
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2014
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This is Where I Leave You
Positive Reviews
51
Negative reviews
29
Average Rating
2.8
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3.0
This Is Where I Leave You strings audiences along with expected amounts of dysfunction, comedy and warming bits of heart, but theres one constant that ..
We Got This Covered
3.0
This I Where I Leave You is not a great movie, but it is an awfully likable one.
Austin Chronicle
1.0
We shouldnt expect greatness from Shawn Levy, the filmmaker behind such alleged comedies as Date Night and The Internship.
Time Out
2.5
And the rest of the cast sometimes feels as if it is being pushed into a performance style more suited to Levys broader comedies.
Screen Daily
3.0
Sometimes sappy and sometimes over the top, it is mostly enjoyable.
ETimes (TOI)
2.5
As old grudges are aired and former flames materialize, you can practically predict where it is all heading.
Rogerebert
2.0
Its OK to cry, honey. Or laugh. There is no correct response, Fonda says twice in the movie. Were begging to feel one or the other.
Telegraph
3.5
But best of all, this ensemble sizzles together, exchanging barbs and blows with verve and nerve.
Cinema Blend
2.0
They all arrive with tons of emotional baggage, including how Pauls wife (Hahn) once dated Judd, and that the neighbor guy (Olyphant) who was Wendys t ..
Ny Daily News
2.5
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU would have likely gone over much better with lower key humor.
JoBlo
4.0
What ultimately pushes This Is Where I Leave You to excellence is the chemistry of the ensemble cast.
Screen Rant
2.5
But the process of sifting for actors honest moments isnt entirely in vain.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
The movie toys with real emotions, with our emotions, in ways that are pat and writerly and button pushing in the cheapest, cheesiest ways.
Philly
4.5
This Is Where I Leave You isnt that ambitious but it does manage to introduce us to an entertaining band of dysfunctional relatives who are funny and ..
Spirituality And Practice
2.2
If this makes the movie sound like a dish festooned with too many ingredients, it is.
One Guys Opinion
3.1
Its a cluttered, messy, manipulative movie, with too many scenes giving away their finish line right from the start, too many jokes telegraphed, too m ..
Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
This is Where I Leave You provides a unique creative challenge, forcing Levy to manage a plethora of characters and numerous shifts in tone while pres ..
Blu Ray
2.5
The laughs are about as cheap as the sentimentalityI counted at least four gags involving a three year old and his training toilet.
Chicago Reader
3.8
The film becomes sentimental, but it earns that quality with the bite of its earlier scenes.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.1
The movie lightens some of the books darker moments and renders the tale as a longform, middling sitcom.The result is congenial, but easily forgotten.
Usa Today
2.0
More floor sweepings from the Hollywood ideas factory in This Is Where I Leave You, which was like watching last weeks The Judge all over again, excep ..
The Times
3.0
The mouth watering ensemble is endlessly watchable, even if the story doesnt take them anywhere particularly surprising.
Radio Times
3.5
While it contains more of the former than the latter genre material, it has enough heartfelt moments to prevent it from being a straight out yuk fest.
Screen It
2.0
Shawn Levys comedy drama about a grieving American family is too smug and sanctimonious to take advantage of its top notch cast.
Independent
1.9
This comedy about a death is a funeral for the audience.But, hey, heres your chance to sit shiva with an all star cast, led by Jason Bateman, Tina Fey ..
Rolling Stone
2.5
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 sor ..
The Wrap
3.8
Shawn Levys new film, This Is Where I Leave You, checks off so many Hollywood boxes that you might suspect it of blatant pandering.Star studded cast
News Day
3.5
Smoothly entertaining and wafer thin, This Is Where I Leave You coasts on the charms of its cast while its plot founders on contrivances.
Film Journal
2.0
There are a few enjoyable moments, with Fey and Fonda making you wish they had a movie of their own, but sadly the narrative is more concerned with th ..
The Guardian
1.0
Replace the words leave you in the title with throw up.This humourless piece of pseudo bittersweet huggingnlearning nonsense is intolerable and it is ..
The Guardian
2.0
This is Where I Leave You is totally aimble, utterly unmoving filler given a major shot in the arm by its cast, people its simply a pleasure to watch, ..
The Guardian
2.5
Not completely there is simply too much talent involved for the film to fail completely.
Az Central
2.5
Once the many plot points have been ratcheted up, the solutions begin. Characters keep meeting in pairs, with Judd tentatively romancing former acquai ..
Smh
2.5
Yet in other ways, it stays in safe terrain, and the ensemble cast members often feel as if they have been selected to revisit familiar characters and ..
Smh
2.0
Despite its weaknesses, this remains a sweet story with some good lines, carried off by good actors.
Npr
3.8
Its better than that, even if it flits about too much to ever fully engage.
Star Tribune
2.5
And they look like they know it.All of which leaves you wondering: Why cast such talented, interesting, and edgy performers if youre only going to ask ..
Ew
2.5
Something like that.If Tina Fey is almost entirely wasted in a humorless role as Judds unhappily married sister, other actors fare better.
Salon
2.0
The combination of sometimes acerbic wit and trite self help book advice doesnt sit right either.
Flim List
3.0
A dream cast are on good form in a film that makes you want to call your siblings, but very glad you dont live with them.
Empire
2.5
But, alas, they stumble over the emotional baggage that lurks around every corner.
Susang Ranger
1.9
I cant 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 m ..
Observer
3.0
At least the story itself is offbeat.But truly, the best reason to see This Is Where I Leave You is that it leaves you thinking just enough about your ..
Common Sense Media
2.5
Tina Fey and Jason Bateman play brother and sister in the comedy, This Is Where I Leave You.
Sf Gate
2.5
Boasting a wonderful cast, the movie tries its best to break through.
Book My Show
2.5
If you are like most moviegoers, and you found those funny and charming, youll exclaim, Oh, its a new Shawn Levy movie!
Time
2.0
In spite of all the indie film cliches, cast members Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Luke Wilson turn The Skeleton Twins into something special.Yet anoth ..
Boston Herald
1.9
It would certainly offer a more compelling portrait of frayed nerves and tense gear shifts than the movie itself.
Slant Magazine
1.3
This Is Where I Leave You leaves you wanting if not more, than at least better and smarter and more honest.
Washington Post
2.5
But both actors struggle with parts that are stock figures rather than fully imagined people.
The New York Times
3.0
This Is Where I Leave You milks easy laughs from a spectacularly dysfunctional family forced to spend quality time together in the wake of their fathe ..
Express
3.5
With the amount of characters involved, it would have been surprising if This Is Where I Leave You didnt fall prey to rushed resolutions and unsatisfy ..
The Film Stage
2.5
With this movie, Hollywood seems more intent than ever on disproving Tolstoy: Each unhappy family is unhappy in exactly the same way.
Boston Globe
2.8
Laura Clifford Robin Clifford When their father dies, Altman family matriarch Hillary (Jane Fonda) insists his last wish was that they sit Shiva.
Reeling Reviews
2.5
Unremarkable but occasionally enjoyable, Levys dramedy is pleasant enough, but it grows tired, losing focus by the end.
Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
Oh goodness, it feels nine year old me isbeing tickled Sega Geeks: Prepare to have your nostalgia rod dutifully serviced.
Total Film
3.8
Although This Is Where I Leave You is technically an ensemble piece, the main point of view is Judds, which makes Batemans contribution key.Even consi ..
ReelViews
3.5
Everyone here is obnoxious to one degree or another, but enough of it amusing in an appalling sort of way that its difficult to not be at least partly ..
Hollywood Reporter
4.0
Troppers script is acute and sensitive, but it retains its humor throughout.
Tony Medley
3.0
The Altmans ordinariness is faithfully rendered on screen by Levy, who tends to play it safe in his films; the Night at the Museum series is typical o ..
Los Angeles Times
3.5
And if the movie never quite masters the feel of messy, grown up life, it at least makes a few promising salvos in that direction when it isnt dispens ..
Variety
3.5
... an audience friendly white peoples problems movie with an absolutely spot on cast making the most of the material.
Hit Fix
3.8
The performances and laughs are enough to make This Is Where I Leave You enjoyable, provided you can overlook the shallowness and frequent sitcom comp ..
Aisle Seat
2.5
LEIGH PAATSCH: 100 must see movies before you die TINA FEY: One of Taylor Swifts five biggest haters media camera It could have been a whole lot bette ..
Herald Sun
2.2
I kept wishing I could pull some Purple Rose of Cairo magic and escort them all to a movie like Beautiful Girls, which shares the same sentimental com ..
Consequence Of Sound
2.5
No, its the paper thin characters and utterly predictable storyline that does the film in.
Reel Film
2.5
And while director of photography Terry Stacey has done a lot of schmaltz mostly rom coms and Nicholas Sparks movies at least his sentimental educatio ..
Nj
2.5
The writing mixes sit com style cleverness with heartfelt exchanges, creating scenes aimed at Hollywoods solid double; i.e., a blend of laughs and tea ..
Movie Habit
2.5
Judd is right, but whats wrong about this supposed comedy is how unfunny and uninvolving much of it is.
The Star
2.8
A cast of TV veterans does its best in this dramedy full of dime store philosophy and a few good jokes.
Oregon Live
5.0
Even addressing common employee grievances is harder than one would imagine.
Scroll
4.0
In director Shawn Levys hands, theres a wonderful sense of motion as slick lines are flung, family secrets are revealed and the incongruous becomes th ..
Urban Cine File
3.0
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU is a dysfunctional family comedy/drama that turns out to have a heart.
Maki At The Movies
3.0
The caustic wit, innovative visual style and surreal humour of that show are sorely missed here, and when dysfunctional family films are ten a penny, ..
Digital Spy
3.8
This lily white farce is not quite Oscar caliber material, but oy you could do far, far worse for a night at the multiplex these days.
New York Post
3.0
There are a few laugh out loud moments not quite enough to drag this out of dramatic tear jerker territory but enough to recommend it for its feelgood ..
Flicks
2.5
Still, the movie feels rehearsed when it should move.Its messiness is too organized.
Red Eye Chicago
2.5
Undernourished, choppily edited and undermined by an insistence on turning just about every would be touching moment into a forced joke, this familial ..
Dustin Put Man
1.3
So, as an aficianado, I beg of you: if you get the impulse to see This Is Where I Leave You, save your money and watch any of the above films.Any of t ..
Christianity Today
3.5
But its an enjoyable one, an emotional comedy that earns its lump in the throat and most of its laughs.
Hollywood And Fine
2.0
Presents a checklist of dramedy clichs that have been executed in much better ways in much better movies.
Matts Movie Reviews
3.1
This Is Where I Leave You is often sitcommy, but it also has many genuine moments.
Js Online
2.5
This Is Where I Leave You struggles in vain to meld broad, farcical comedy with low key, contemplative drama.
The Dissolve
0.0
Here, he attempts to invert the formula, but winds up with stale drama soaked in jokes: cinematic milk toast.
Sandiego Reader
2.0
Fondas artificially large breasts were perhaps funny the first time the joke was revealed, but the comedy sagged quite quickly after trying to use it ..
Hollywood Chicago
1.5
When it comes to audience reaction, the film deserves to be met with no less than its own title, no more than ten minutes in.
Cinemix Tape
3.5
The level of humor sometimes lowers itself to gags about one of the youngest kids learning how to potty train themselves, but for the most part the co ..
ComingSoon
3.0
But if grown up comedy/drama cinema is so broken that this is the best the movies can do with a cast like this, its pretty easy to get where the TV bo ..
Flavor Wire
3.8
What results is a funny, risque and relatable movie that deals in a refreshing way with very real adult topics.
Mercury News
2.5
This isnt the first formulaic or unfunny comedy from director Shawn Levy (The Internship), but it is a notable waste of a game cast.
Seven Day Svt
2.5
Fey is predictably funny, though her scenes are often rounded out with unnecessary punchlines that feel more sitcom than cinema.
Concrete Play Ground
3.0
There are moments when its far too sugary for its own good, and the script cant quite find the right amount of laughs or tears, but for all that it st ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
4.5
It may turn out to be the longest week of all their lives.An incredibly emotional ensemble piece, perfectly matching laughter and tears, This Is Where ..
Media Mikes
2.5
Levys latest attempt to rebrand himself is This Is Where I Leave You, a dysfunctional family dramedy that is filled with rapid fire jokes (funny ones, ..
Blog Bullz Eye
4.0
The sickly self involvement of this family and the movie is stunning.
Vue Weekly
3.0
Despite the presence of four dysfunctional siblings and an overbearing matriarch, supporting characters are stuffed into virtually every room of the h ..
Us Magazine
0.5
Its a sentiment that could apply to this whole cast that deserved better than this bland, unfunny comedy about this obnoxious family.
Johnhanlon Reviews
4.0
Whatever, youll laugh a bit and smile a lot.Unlike some ensemble pieces this one has a protagonist through whose eyes you witness a family debacle.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
1.5
The narrative is boring, completely tensionless and leaves the performances of the actors uninspired.
Impulse Gamer
2.0
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Richard Roeper
2.5
Its full of good ideas, but many of them end up half baked or overcooked, like an attractive cake thats all icing when you take a bite.
Ut Sandiego
3.0
When This Is Where I Leave You works, you can thank the gifted cast.
Aarp
3.5
Meaning, the movie is perfectly efficient and likable whether jerking tears or soliciting laughs.
Saportare Port
2.0
Baby brother Phillip (Adam Driver) is a bon vivant without job skills, but with enough social savoir faire to snag a rich cougar girlfriend.Throw in a ..
O Canada
3.5
That process is what happens throughout the film these siblings just dont like owning up to it.Levy knows how to frame and cut physical comedy without ..
Oc Register
3.1
Features enough fights, infidelities, breakups, breakdowns, pregnancies, infertilities and miscellaneous interpersonal tumult to fill several movies.
M Live
3.1
This Is Where I Leave You basically features a major league cast performing bland and routine minor league material.
Jc Online
1.9
Levy veers wildly between wacky slapstick and sticky sentimentality, with healthy sprinklings of toddler poop and elderly boob gags.
Christy Lemire
2.5
While This Is Where I Leave You is predictable with horrible tone issues, the great cast keeps you interested and milks a few decent moments out of th ..
Dcw50
3.5
Somewhere in its two hours, This Is Where I Leave You morphs into the kind of well considered, emotionally resonant fare that we should still expect f ..
Signature Reads
2.5
For a movie partly about loss, This Is Where I Leave You is shockingly unsubstantial: Its grief and personal growth on autopilot.
The Concourse Deads
1.3
Like most films, This Is Where I Leave You is merely a byproduct of its environment.
Sf Bay
3.4
The slight This Is Where I Leave You charms as that brand of indie gone Hollywood.
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