Bill 2007

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: The story of a man (Aaron Eckhart) grappling with middle-age ennui at work and at home feels done to death, as does the distracting addition of a spunky rich-kid high schooler. Read more

Loren Lankford, Entertainment Weekly: Even a hilarious turn by Kristen Wiig as the owner of a doughnut company can't save this cliched, meandering story from playing like American Beauty lite. Read more

Julia Wallace, L.A. Weekly: It tries hard to mimic the arch tone of the best suburban tragicomedies (American Beauty, et al.), but a surfeit of stock characters, double-wide plot holes and heavy-handed symbolism ruins the effect. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Meet Bill misfires on multiple levels, but its foremost mistake is focusing on a sad-sack underachiever. Bill doesn't believe in himself, so why should we? Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Eddie Cockrell, Variety: Husband-and-wife helmers Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann make all the wrong choices, from the grimacing they've encouraged their large (and largely wasted) cast to indulge in, to the musical riffs that signal each and every dramatic beat. Read more