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David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: What Just Happened? is a doodle, but its aura of dread seems earned. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The industry gags are pretty familiar, but De Niro carries this with the sighing, shambling-bear persona that's defined him in middle age. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A movie that's perfectly good, and yet not good enough. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Happened deviates greatly from Linson's winning little book in its particulars, but retains its sustained melancholy mood of low-key existential dread and dyspeptic wit. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It's another entertaining look at making films and a reminder that, with many of them, what goes on behind the scenes is the best part. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Eventually it just stalls. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The movie is brilliant at portraying the incredibly high stakes of the seemingly inconsequential and the tremendous amounts of money spent on it. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The sharpest Hollywood satire since The Player. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: This satire is a perfect sendup of Hollywood with a marvelous cast, including De Niro in his best performance in years. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: In some ways, What Just Happened feels like an attempt to, if not make amends for moviemaking myopia, at least show how easily the contagion takes hold. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: What Just Happened? is just a plain clumsy movie. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It has dryly obscene, laugh-out-loud lines, and its portrait of Hollywood as a giant anxiety attack is fused by De Niro, who musters a desperate, nagging warmth beneath his grumbly facade. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Hollywood is full of liars, back-stabbers, sycophants, would-be power players and rampant egomaniacs. And your point is what? Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Jaw-droppingly arcane and dripping with self-regard. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Hollywood loves to satirize itself using its own medium. But with few exceptions -- The Player comes to mind -- the laughs are rarely as wicked as they should be, and the skewers barely break the skin. So it is with What Just Happened. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Levinson has assembled a fine field of actors, no question, but the going is too easy for them underfoot; movies about movies are old ground. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Imagine if a Hollywood satire was about any other business -- would it seem interesting to anyone outside of Hollywood? Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A fairly toothless Tinseltown expose. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Movies about Hollywood are as common as Jolie babies, and there have been broader, funnier, meaner takes on the business than this one. But this Barry Levinson version of real-life producer Art Linson's memoir is more movie-savvy than any of them. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: There are cutting laughs along the way, and Keener plays the hard-nosed studio chief with an insider's acumen, but, really, Entourage is better than this. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There's not a whole lot in What Just Happened? that would be out of place in a good SNL skit. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: If truth is stranger than fiction, it's also, quite often, a lot more boring. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: If, ultimately, What Just Happened? emerges as slightly less than the sum of its parts, those parts are very good indeed. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: In What Just Happened, we get a loving tribute to the movie business filled with disdain for the ethics of the people who work in the business. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: What Just Happened? has already happened and, to everyone but Levinson, that shouldn't be surprising. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: You'd probably need a veteran Hollywood psychiatrist to explain Tinseltown's fascination with its own muck. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: A film that feels every bit the product of its purportedly ruthless and artistically corrupting milieu. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's a bit too inside to appeal to wide audiences, though there are some funny scenes. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: This intermittently amusing outing is graced by one of Robert De Niro's more engaging performances of recent vintage. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Sometimes silly, often scathingly funny, What Just Happened? finally possesses a winning mix of toughness and heart. Read more