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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ... a quiet but often giggly pleasure. Read more
Matt Pais, Chicago Tribune: Much of the movie just counts on its audience saying, 'I don't know what kugel is, but that sure is a funny word.' Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Enough happens in show business margins of the Hollywood milieu depicted in For Your Consideration, in which Coolidge shows up as a bubbleheaded producer, to make up for a somewhat soft center. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: The gags may be hit and miss in For Your Consideration, but the performances often are comic gems. This gang has worked together so often that they blend together effortlessly. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Even more welcome than a new Bond is a new Guest. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The theory of comedy that applies here is that even the most talented people in the world cannot turn back the clock on an outdated concept. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: By now Christopher Guest's brand of satire has become so formulaic that it hardly matters that he disposes with the pseudodocumentary format this time. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: While that title raises expectations for delicious humor, what we see of the movie itself is foolish and flat. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: For Your Consideration becomes more effective as it gets more cutting. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Jane Lynch does a stance, a television hostess stance that's so perfect, without saying a word, that's funnier than almost anything I've seen in most mainstream comedies this year. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Much of For Your Consideration feels shrill and off-base, like it's working too hard and reaching too far. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: For Your Consideration won't win an Oscar, but it probably will win some adulation from hard-core Guest fans. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Despite the dead fish floating in this latest barrel, the potshots in For Your Consideration do add up to a knowing jeremiad against the maddening phenomenon of awards-season hype. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: For Your Consideration is the first of Guest's films to be filmed as a narrative rather than a mock-documentary, but somehow it still feels a little played out and in need of a rest. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Marilyn may not rate an Oscar nomination, but O'Hara certainly does. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Inside the awfully good comedy For Your Consideration is a purely awful drama, dying to break out. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: [Director Christoper Guest] finds the absurd (and shares in the discovery with his cast) but always sees some human, tender truth behind the laugh lines. As a result, For Your Consideration is certainly worth your consideration. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Truly, the level of tender, ruthless, inspired, lethally accurate study that has gone into the follicular expression of each and every character in Christopher Guest's latest hilarious cultural corrective is something inspiring to behold. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Much of the funniest material is mined from the attendant media hoopla drummed up by the vacuous hosts of an "Entertainment Tonight"-style show hosted by predictably hilarious Fred Willard and Jane Lynch. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: The point is that Hollywood types are--gasp!--shallow. If that news shocks anyone, check your pulse, because you may have been in a coma for 80 years. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: This is the first of Guest's movies that has felt calculated to me, like it was made not because he had a great idea for a new picture but because he's become a brand name. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: For Your Consideration always seems a bit too tame for its own good: It never busts out the way you hope it would. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: You would expect heady fun from Guest and company as they parody themselves, but the movie is considerably weaker than past efforts. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: ... Christopher Guest's aim in For Your Consideration is hilariously accurate. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Fans of Guest's brand of repertory-company character comedies will find a few reasons to grin. But even the fanatical will have to admit that this one is hardly worth considering. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For Your Consideration will not go down as one of Guest's crown jewels, but it's nevertheless engaging. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The target is way too easy and the tone far too smug. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: ... a winningly successful movie about abject failure. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: You have to admire the economy of Guest's work, his ability to work on a small scale and his deadpan skill at keeping his actors on the emotional reservation -- calmly facing down emotional chaos. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Although it scores some easy laughs, Guest's latest is a disappointment. Read more
Eddie Cockrell, Variety: [It] works chiefly because they continue to simultaneously embrace and condemn the cruel superficiality of their self-absorbed losers. Read more
Nathan Lee, Village Voice: Hoopla in Hollywood isn't the real subject here, merely the pretext for another oddball ode to lovable losers. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: [The film] may contain as many riffs on ego, self-deception and corporate greed as Guest's directorial debut, but it also possesses something rarely seen from the director: a shocking degree of unforgiving misanthropy. Read more