It is not too often that you find a film where there is a balance of comedy with messages that make you reflect on modernity, and your own way of living.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Simon Rich is a great short story writer, but it doesn't seem as if his strong suit comes with screenplays.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 21, 2024

An American Pickle surprisingly takes a grounded approach on the “man out of his time” concept, making its message about “family”, even though its premise is absolutely bonkers. Seth Rogen offers a fantastic double performance.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 24, 2023

An American Pickle is not funny. It’s simple, silly, and often sore like a muscle strain.

| Jul 20, 2023

The film seems slightly unsure of where it wants to go tonally, but Rogen’s warm, grounded, quiet performance eventually molds the film to its shape, keeping everything in the lightly bittersweet realm of Yiddish comedy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 11, 2022

An interesting tonal stew, An American Pickle gets lost along the way trying to pastiche trends that already feel out of date. However, theres an honestly to its message, and the dual performances of its star.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2022

King of the stoner comedy, Seth Rogen doesn't always hit home runs, but this is one of his gentler, easier- to-like films.

| Aug 27, 2021

The key to digging An American Pickle, I think, is understanding that it's essentially a modern fable and demands to be read as such.

| Aug 8, 2021

An American Pickle isn't a bad movie; it goes down easy, with a...runtime that manages to move at a steady clip. One only wishes it had stayed in the brine a bit longer.

| Jun 5, 2021

While 'An American Pickle' is more affable than it is funny, it's still intriguing to continue to witness Seth Rogen tackle issues of faith and national identity in his own laconic style.

| Mar 30, 2021

The charmingly absurd - and occasionally absurdly charming - comedy sees Rogen portraying two characters and sharing a great many scenes with himself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2021

An American Pickle requires its viewers to suspend a lot of disbelief, but those willing to go along for the ride will find much to entertain them. Twice the Rogen ensures the film works most of the way through.

| Feb 5, 2021

An American Pickle can't save its muddled self from plot points that fizzle and a script full of dead air.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 29, 2021

The comedy is broad but the heart of the story, the sense of the importance of family, inner strength and the feeling of displacement immigrants often feel in a new land are all handled sensitively.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

A Greenbaum versus Greenbaum conflict erupts midway, a patience-testing contrivance meant to illustrate the superiority of the old ways, but only serves to highlight the sloppy screenwriting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2021

Rogen's excellent performances make An American Pickle worth spending time with.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2021

Even at just 88 minutes, it's long and stilted.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 20, 2021

...It's easy to see why this one ended up being chucked onto HBO Max.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jan 15, 2021

The various visual and staging techniques that allow Rogen to act opposite himself are invisible, and the film delivers consistent amusement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2020

Its premise may sound quaint, but the whimsy of An American Pickle helps nurture all kinds of delicate emotions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2020