Anger Management is the kind of film that you could safely catch much later on television. If you have nothing better to watch.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 4, 2019

Audiences are still looking at the stars, but nowadays they often do it from the gutter of films like Anger Management.

| Jan 10, 2018

What is fundamentally wrong with Anger Management is that, try as they might, the two stars have absolutely no comedic or dramatic chemistry together, and so eventually the audience gets slightly bored with them.

| Jan 3, 2018

Very raunchy, uneven comedy with great actors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2010

Unless you're 15 at heart, you may need anger management yourself after sitting through this aggressively crass comedy, which alternates between mean-spirited slapstick and arbitrary uplift.

| Nov 1, 2007

No, it doesn't make much sense, and yes, it's irredeemably phallocentric -- but that is, perhaps, its saving grace.

| Jun 24, 2006

A better script and more attention to other cast members would have helped but, as it stands, this is still the best Adam Sandler comedy since The Wedding Singer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2003

Can it really be true that the latest Adam Sandler film is, well, quite funny? Ish? Yes -- but only because he's paired with Jack Nicholson.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2003

It doesn't help that David Dorfman's script is tired, grotesquely homophobic and relies far too heavily on potty humor to be entirely successful.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

The pairing of Nicholson and Sandler is golden.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2003

Has hell frozen over? Not only is Jack Nicholson starring in a buddy movie alongside Adam Sandler, but of the two, Sandler's low-key approach is preferable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2003

Strenuous, spottily amusing.

| Apr 24, 2003

This is the kind of coarse comedy where a fart serves as a punch line.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2003

Pinwheels all over the place, moving without warning from drippy pathos to slapstick lunacy to insipid narrative contrivances.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2003

Even a longtime Adamophobe has to admit that Sandler is an agreeable presence here, and that the film has some funny filigree work to offset the oppressive schematics.

| Apr 16, 2003

Embarrassed and clueless, Mr. Nicholson is clearly slumming. As a goopy, doofus pet-clothes designer whose only talent is nostril-wiggling, Mr. Sandler comes closer to playing his real self.

| Apr 15, 2003

The free-associational lurch of the enigmatic Nicholson 12-step program is set to a familiar backbeat of juvenile gross-out and homosexual panic; what's truly illogical is the blithe conflation of anger management and assertiveness training.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2003

[A] disaster from the start.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2003

Blandly unfunny and narratively nonsensical.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2003

A couple of brakes-off set pieces to the side, the antics here are strained, graceless and tiresomely crude, the sorts of things audiences feel they're supposed to laugh at rather than well-developed situations that generate genuine amusement.

Full Review | Apr 11, 2003