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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatAn entertaining, clever look at the backstabbing actors do in search of recognition and fame.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenOriginally released seven years ago on home video, is only now surfacing as a theatrical release. Although it's no classic, it's a cut or two smarter than the average Hollywood comedy. At its best, it plays like a less acerbic, less Jewish triple episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (review of re-release)
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyThe perennially insecure world of two-bit character actors is humorously and knowingly explored in With Friends Like These.
- 50The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinNot even amusing cameos from Bill Murray as a freeloading producer and Michael McKean as a proctologist can keep With Friends Like These... from being as minor as the film careers of its two-bit protagonists.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickOnly sporadically amusing. (review of re-release)
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe movie works as well as it does because the cast knows the material so intimately. (review of re-release)
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceMessina's characters gripe at being typecast as goombah hit men, yet the director seems blissfully unaware that he dooms them to the very fate they protest by painting them with such prosaic, uninspired strokes. (review of re-release)
- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghGives off an air of clammy desperation that feels all too authentic without being especially funny and bogs down early in repetitive shtick. (review of re-release)