Reviews for this film from our members:
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: Following last year’s bizarrely tone-deaf adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s ‘Labor Day,’ Reitman’s latest is a peculiarly alarmist ensemble piece about how, in spite of our copious technology, we’re all just so disconnected, man. When Reitman burst on the scene with ‘Thank You for Smoking’ back in 2005, he seemed bent on making another ‘Dr. Strangelove’; based on his new picture, he’s apparently spent those years harboring the desire to make another ‘Crash.’
- William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: The kids are all right. The internet is all right. It’s this dreary, futile, meandering movie that sucks the life out of everything.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A comedy of manners about youth and adults hooked on the Internet.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: I didn’t like this movie when it was called “Disconnect,” and cowriter/director Jason Reitman’s (“Juno,” “Labor Day”) adaptation of Chad Kultgen’s novel lays on pretension masquerading as deep thought for an even less convincing mix
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Considering its lack of concern in addressing a solution to the problem it raises, the movie’s fascination with masturbation is appropriate.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Jason Reitman is way too young to have produced a work of such fuddy-duddy handwringing over These Kids (And Adults) Today and how we play with our e-toys.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Future Reitman analysts will have his early period to begin their dissections and then will move on to his films which feel aimed at his neighborhood Rotary Club, which feels like the only demographic Reitman will end up scaring here.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Critically, “Labor Day” was unfairly mocked because it was filmmaker Reitman in a different, more earnest mode, many claiming that he was losing his way and his spiky edge. Correction: “Men, Women & Children” is his first miscalculation.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Dan Lybarger @ KCActive.com
- Excerpt: What’s missing here is a sense of darkness and unfamiliarity that drove Reitman’s earlier films.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: Given the fact that Men, Women & Children has a kind of a forest-for-the-trees thing happening, it’s not surprising that some details are lost in the earnest pursuit of so many others. The problem that co-writer and director Jason Reitman has, though, isn’t that he can’t see the forest, it’s that he thinks he does, and he ignores the good trees within it by trying to have it all
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Banality posing as profundity.
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