Those hoping for a rich dramatic swing from Ferrell will be left remarkably cold by the material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2023

In Everything Must Go, Dan Rush discovers an unsuspecting Will Ferrell, and perfectly natural dramaticism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2022

the film is so consistently good that it's hard not to root for it to be the film that finally convinces America to allow Ferrell out of the over-the-top comedy corner.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

By the end of ninety minutes you, along with most of the cast, wish that Halsey would move on with his life and put everyone out of his misery.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2018

The film is not quite there somehow-like Punch Drunk Love-level Adam Sandler, Ferrell needs a scene in which he busts out his signature belligerent yelling, or some kind of outburst, but he's just flat and defeated, and not in the Oscar-winning way.

| Nov 17, 2018

Everything Must Go is not a comedy as imagined by most Will Ferrell fans, it instead takes Ferrell out of his usually funny-man comfort zone and puts him in a role about life's lessons and understanding those around us.

| Aug 24, 2018

A gratifying story with a quietly powerful performance from funnyman Will Ferrell.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2013

Has a similar problem to its protagonist: It just sort of sits there.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2013

Good performances by Ferrell and Wallace and fantastic cinematography make Everything Must Go an enjoyable watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 13, 2013

Gentle understatement that stealthily but surely gets under the skin and touches the heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 4, 2012

Everything Must Go is a pleasantly engaging, entertaining human portrait - a journey that doesn't physically stray very far, but which treads a million metaphorical miles within its main character as he attempts to go from broken man to redeemed man.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 2, 2012

For a film that preaches giving it all away, Everything Must Go could have done with being a little more bold.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2011

Cue self pity, followed by despair, followed by resignation, hope and redemption...Screenwriter/director Dan Rush...opts for this standard redemption arc.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 16, 2011

I found this a delicately observed, satisfying movie and greatly enjoyed it.

| Oct 16, 2011

Ferrell is far more impressive in a straighter role ... as he controls his own brand of zaniness and channels it as bittersweet irony and humour into ordinary events.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2011

The laughs are gentle, Nick is a pleasingly ambiguous character and the anti-materialism message is admirable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2011

A well-controlled film with a portrait at its centre that is astonishingly complete.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2011

It may stray into a few redundant subplots along the way but Everything Must Go succeeds as a plaintive portrait of a man cast adrift from all the past certainties of his life.

| Oct 13, 2011

Too insubstantial to be a full-length feature.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2011

A pleasing, satisfying chamber-piece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2011