Critic Reviews
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
An indelibly funny and touching comedy with a real sting in its tail. The laughs leave scars.
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83
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The observations about parenthood, pro and con, are quick and smart, and Scott effortlessly steals the show, softening Westfeldt's brittle cuteness.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Friends With Kids takes a fresh and funny look at a familiar subject, with enough buoyant romance to satisfy audiences drawn to starry-eyed love stories and hopeful endings.
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75
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Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Friends With Kids cheerfully earns its R rating on language alone, but always in service of a good laugh.
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75
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New York Post Kyle Smith
Credit Westfeldt, who is also the writer and director, with a classic setup for farce, brightly executed.
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70
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The Hollywood Reporter
The co-screenwriter of "Kissing Jessica Stein" goes solo as writer and director with a romantic comedy that takes time to find its groove but steadily accumulates heart and humor.
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60
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
While "FWK" never challenges us, it does remain consistently engaging.
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60
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Movieline Stephanie Zacharek
Jennifer Westfeldt's sort-of romantic comedy Friends with Kids is on to something, even if in the end it suffers from a failure of nerve.
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50
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Los Angeles Times
The mildly engaging, often exasperating feature poses a few good questions and offers some well-observed moments. Yet even as it zeros in on radical shifts in the mechanics and mores of parenthood, it sits quite comfortably in a well-worn romantic-comedy groove.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
Good chemistry between the lead actors and nice supporting performances help Friends With Kids survive a formulaic story and just-OK filmmaking.
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10
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
It's shrill in tone, awash in unexamined narcissism - kids are just pretexts for laughs, rather than objects of love - and afflicted by explosive verbal diarrhea. There's simply no base line of normal human activity, let alone intimacy, until the anticouple finally re-examines their anticommitment credo. By then everyone has been so selfish and dislikable that our commitment to the film is lost.
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