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Why Stop Now?
2012
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4
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2.3
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2.5
Its handsome, well paced, and nicely acted, but suffers from a fatal lack of purpose, as if Dorling and Nyswaner couldnt commit to whatever movie they ..
Av Club
4.4
The drug dealers, for example, arent rubber stamp movie drug dealers but plausible people with real lives and feelings.
Rogerebert
2.0
Morgan, for starters, shows more depth than hes usually entrusted with. (
Common Sense Media
1.9
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
1.5
If youre not interested in either of those elements and havent seen this film yetdont start now.
Paste Magazine
2.0
Feels trapped in the limbo between comedy and drama where many indies gamely venture, but from which few emerge with any resonance.
0.5
An unbearable 90 minute trip with a trio of loud, needy egotists one whose updated scenario never feels like it needs the extra 75 minutes.
Village Voice
2.2
Why Stop Now isnt very funny or poignant, drifting somewhere in between while the actors make the best out of a lackluster storytelling situation.
Blu Ray
4.5
Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, and Tracy Morgan make an unlikely but entertaining trio in this frantic shaggy dog story.
Chicago Reader
2.5
Drug abuse stories are to Hollywood what babies are to mothers: fascinating to the talkers, not so interesting for their audiences.
New York Post
1.5
Why Stop Now refuses to keep faith with its characters, to carry them as far as they can go without tying them up in a neat bow of redemption.
Npr
3.1
Yet this offbeat amuser recognizes that theres more to education and success than pure ability.
Red Eye Chicago
1.0
Luckily Eisenberg (an excellent student, despite being raised by a coke addict who owes money to drug dealers) speaks fluent Spanish so hes essential.
Screen Crush
1.5
Boasts such a diverse cast of recognizable faces that you have to wonder where it all went wrong..a half hearted tale that should land with more impac ..
Hollywood And Fine
3.5
Each actor is adept at twisting a line or bit of spectacular illogic so gasps turn to laughs.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
2.5
It descends into a series of mawkish, over melodramatic scenes that are entirely unearned and often unpleasantly noisy. Its never especially funny or ..
Quick Flix
2.5
So unfolds Why Stop Now, a raucous road dramedy featuring the unlikely casting of Oscar winner Melissa Leo (for The Fighter) and Oscar nominee Jesse E ..
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