Life Partners 2014

Sara Stewart, New York Post: Fogel's focus is female friendship, and the challenges presented by growing older and pairing up. It all makes for a rocky road, regardless of the romantic rival's gender. Read more

Ronnie Scheib, Variety: A well-scripted, intriguingly-acted effort to mine the theme of prolonged adolescent best-buddyism through two women. Read more

Jesse Hassenger, AV Club: Most of the time, the banter doesn't sound like banter; the movie shares Sasha and Paige's unforced shorthand. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: The two stars display a winning chemistry in this amusingly observant study of female friendship. Read more

Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times: Meester and Jacobs have an easy, authentic chemistry, but there isn't enough structure or storytelling thrust to sustain interest in the plot: Triumphs, calamities and reunions keep happening, but none contains real dramatic heft. Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: Fogel refuses to pander by pretending that the girls can fix everything with a hug. Sacrifices must be made. Read more

Inkoo Kang, TheWrap: "A waxen falseness suffuses the stilted, stubbornly generic picture. Like the fast-food mozzarella sticks one of the characters devours in moments of existential woe, it feels like a calculated imitation rather than the real thing." Read more

David Ehrlich, Time Out: Limited by the same arch tone and flippant jokes that suffocate every other low-budget indie about Gen Y confronting adulthood. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The charming story about millennial confusion is deftly written by Susanna Fogel (who also directs) and Joni Lefkowitz, and the dialog actually sounds like the way a pair of smart and funny twentysomethings might really talk. Read more