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Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press: In the best dramedies, of course, laughter and tears alternate seamlessly and gracefully, and you leave both entertained and enlightened. Alas, this isn't that film. Read more
Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com: Mawkish, self-satisfied and false, This Is Where I Leave You strenuously attempts to wring poignancy from its familial clashes and catharsis. More often, it's cringe-inducing. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: This Is Where I Leave You amounts to everything I can't stand about certain American movies. It gathers too many good, smart actors and gives most of them almost nothing interesting to play. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Doesn't quite live up to its stellar cast, but there are still plenty of laughs. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A vulgar, inept and gruesomely contrived load of junk misleadingly labeled a comedy ... Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: This is one of those overworked and generally airless comedies with a sitcom premise that can't sustain life. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Ultimately, though the movie's not always believable, it's kind to its characters and leaves you with a few laughs - and that's, sometimes, more than enough. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Once in awhile, a reviewer's darkest suspicions about a film butt up against a sneaky pleasure in its incidental epiphanies. I confess to being conflicted. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: A sprawling ensemble dramedy that starts out like a full-tilt sit-com and gradually migrates to a place of genuine feeling. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It all falls flat. Not completely - there is simply too much talent involved for the film to fail completely. But man, what could have been ... Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: With this movie, Hollywood seems more intent than ever on disproving Tolstoy: Each unhappy family is unhappy in exactly the same way. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: One by one, each of them acknowledges his or her problem, they talk it out, and by the end of the week everybody's OK. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The movie's painless. It's OK. And with this cast, OK is disappointing. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: A benign, gently naughty and rarely unpleasant dramatic comedy, the movie benefits from the kind of cast that can cover a lot of warts and keep the cookie cutter churning along. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is so festooned with cliches it proves that Tolstoy was dead wrong when he wrote that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Read more
Jordan Hoffman, Film.com: "This Is Where I Leave You" is the very definition of "not my cup of tea," but even making that allowance I can safely call it sub-par work. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Everyone here is obnoxious to one degree or another, but enough of it amusing in an appalling sort of way that it's difficult to not be at least partly won over by the brashness of the compulsively uncensored talk and behavior. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: I can't think of a family I'd rather sit shiva with than the Altmans of "This Is Where I Leave You." Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: An enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours at the theater. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "This Is Where I Leave You" is the year's first real crowd pleaser, a comedy-drama that presses all the right buttons but does so with intelligence and skill. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A movie needs to be more than pretty closeups and carefully set up punchlines, and "This Is Where I Leave You" rarely is. Read more
Linda Holmes, NPR: A very ordinary film, particularly for one adapted from such a thoughtful and tonally tricky book. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: It never lands the necessary emotional or comedic punches. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Instead of smiles or tears, "This Is Where I Leave You" is most likely to inspire a Kickstarter campaign to reunite its main performers for a different project. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: Director Levy and screenwriter Jonathan Tropper, who adapted his own novel, tone down or eliminate the wildest incidents in the book, but they're true to its depiction of a pent-up, discordant clan on the verge of a group nervous breakdown. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The movie toys with real emotions, with our emotions, in ways that are pat and writerly and button-pushing in the cheapest, cheesiest ways. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's easy to be impressed by the dramatic capabilities of actors known primarily for lighter fare - in particular, Jason Bateman and Tina Fey, both of whom are terrific. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: What a wasted opportunity. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: This comedy about a death is a funeral for the audience. But, hey, here's your chance to sit shiva with an all-star cast. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: "This Is Where I Leave You" isn't a disaster, but it's hellbent on playing safe, and leaves a good comic cast high and dry. Read more
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The audience-appeal strategy seems to have been: Throw a bunch of gags along with a can't-miss ensemble cast up on screen and hope at least a few stick. They do, even if the overall effect is loosey-goosey. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Although Driver is one of the hottest young actors in Hollywood, his character is so overbearing, he sandbags the whole movie. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: As with so many movies where the script constructs experiences that are contrived and off-putting, you hope the actors can capture the emotional truth of some scenes, even if the entire apparatus feels bogus. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A large cast that looks great on paper becomes unwieldy on the screen, with talented people struggling to stay with a story and a camera that relentlessly skips from scene to scene. Read more
Witney Seibold, TheWrap: Occasionally, Hollywood will step forward with a family drama that actually manages to tinker with actual pain... "This Is Where I Leave You" has no edge, no darkness, no texture, no character to speak of. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: There's something especially irritating about the way the director, helming Jonathan Tropper's adaptation of his own novel, manages to waste such a talented cast. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: As a film it feels overly familiar, with some amusing scenes, but not enough to make for a wholly satisfying experience. Read more
Zachary Wigon, Village Voice: The most charitable thing you can say about This Is Where I Leave You is that it is resolutely innocuous - a nothing of a movie, neutered and sanitary. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Somewhere in this mess, there might be a very good movie. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: "This Is Where I Leave You" leaves you wanting - if not more, than at least better and smarter and more honest. The problem, finally, is that it's not nearly complicated enough. Read more