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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenAlthough the resulting tonal shifts between funny and serious aren't always executed as seamlessly as they might be, Khoury deserves props for defying rom-com conventions more often than he succumbs to them.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweWriter-director J.C. Khoury’s second feature is a romantic dramedy featuring a conventionally appealing cast that’s squandered on a dissatisfingly derivative premise.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceAll Relative requires a strenuous suspension of disbelief. As Harry struggles through this surreality toward love, his mother-daughter love triangle yields few laughs and instead delivers disappointing moments.
- 30The DissolveKate ErblandThe DissolveKate ErblandWhile a defter touch could have made the marriage between fizzy romance and domestic drama work, All Relative fails to engage because the emotional connection between all parties—Harry and Grace, Harry and Maren, Grace and Maren—is weak to nonexistent.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerAll Relative, a tepid romantic comedy written and directed by J. C. Khoury, thinks it’s being surprising, but really it’s merely weaving several male sex fantasies together and making nothing insightful out of the resulting story.
- 30VarietyGeoff BerkshireVarietyGeoff BerkshireEven a brisk running time, barely topping 80 minutes, is too long to ask audiences to stay in the company of these characters and their terrible self-inflicted predicaments.
- 20New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDoes Hollywood have so little to offer women that well-regarded actresses feel obliged to accept demeaning indies like this flatly unfunny, morally vacant comedy?
- 0New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithImagine “The Graduate” as rewritten by a golden retriever, and you’ll have some inkling of the intelligence level in the rom-com All Relative.