Downhill is best watched without having seen Force Majeure because the comparisons are so unflattering.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 6, 2020

Downhill is a good example of a well-regarded foreign language film that translates badly as an American remake.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 6, 2020

The film oversimplifies the complexities of the original, however contrived they might have been, and generally lacks Östlund's subtlety and plaintiveness.

| Mar 6, 2020

Inexplicably, Ferrell is the weakest link, downplaying his character's blooming sense of insecurity despite a celebrated propensity for arialike tantrums. Why wasn't he allowed to go full Step Brothers?

| Mar 5, 2020

For this to work, every nuance has to be just right -- and the lack of specificity here suggests that Faxon and Rash haven't much of their own to say about either long-term marriages or Americans abroad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 5, 2020

What's that hurtling down the piste? Another rubbish US remake of a European art-house hit? Actually, no. This version of Force Majeure... isn't quite as wonderfully unsettling, but it's not far off.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2020

The performances, especially the brittle Louis-Dreyfus, are admirably grounded, but the script's comedy wastes time with lazy barbs about European brusqueness and American exceptionalism abroad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2020

Worth seeing. Which is not the same as saying it was worth making.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2020

It's funny, but aggressively simplified, like swapping out a roquefort for a pack of Dairylea Dunkers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2020

Something that might have been drawn up by a cringe-comedy algorithm, or a team of aliens whose understanding of the human condition was derived from a skim-view of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2020

Allow me to save you some time and money: Force Majeure is streaming on Amazon Prime.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2020

The Force Majeure remake starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus isn't an all-out disaster, just oddly disappointing...

| Feb 20, 2020

It is way more poignant than I expected it to be, but of course, Downhill also has a lot to offer in the comedy department, too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2020

Ferrell and Louis-Dreyfus do a fine job of playing up the mundane minutiae of couple life against a major, character-defining moment. You may see yourself in them; you'll definitely be glad you're not them.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 17, 2020

The Stantons have no politics, no culture, no family background, no range of experience, no interests, no habits, no expressions, no style-no substance and no depth.

| Feb 16, 2020

I cannot get angry or feel let down by what Downhill is not (most obviously that it isn't as deep or as profound as Force Majeure was). I can only judge the film for what it actually is.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2020

It's a watered-down version of the original, but it's still pretty good: neither wise nor profound, yet sometimes smart and with sharp elbows - especially if you have nothing with which to compare it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 15, 2020

Basically they took Force Majeure -- which was excellent -- and they drained it of everything that made it interesting.

| Original Score: 3.7/10 | Feb 15, 2020

Downhill too often plays like a cringe comedy that's all cringe. It's not just uncomfortable; it's unpleasant.

| Feb 15, 2020

It validates a saying that I have: don't remake the good movies, remake the bad movies that had a great concept.

| Feb 15, 2020