Merry witticisms collide with empty clichés, leaving these characters with little trace of realism.
40
TimeRichard Corliss
TimeRichard Corliss
Mostly the movie is like the marriage: good casting, golden promise, yet somehow a grating ordeal.
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Slick and glib when it means to be profound yet ruefully witty; its rhythms are pure sitcom, complete with emotional rimshots.
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The script...and Rob Reiner's direction...bristle with phoniness.
30
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
The wet blanket of undigested autobiography lies all over Rob Reiner's excruciating new opus about a marriage winding down into terminal atrophy.
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A sad-sack movie about the misery of a married couple who fight most of the time. Watching it is like taking a long trip in a small car with the Bickersons.
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The movie's most inexcusable failing is that, despite all the flashbacks, we never get a sense of what this relationship was like when it worked.