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

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

A pleasing, satisfying chamber-piece.

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

Like a bad date; it's attractive, clever, but lacks a sense of humour.

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

Everything Must Go's minor flaws serve to accentuate just how precise and moving the rest of it is.

| Original Score: B+ | May 17, 2011

This isn't Ferrell's first dramatic role; he played seriocomic leading men in Stranger Than Fiction and Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda. But it's the first one that provides a glimpse at his possible future as a Bill Murray-style character actor.

| May 13, 2011

Rush draws on the intense attachment we can feel for the mundane objects in our lives. For Nick, these things are talismans from a past that promised a lot more than it delivered.

| Original Score: B+ | May 13, 2011

In the end, Everything Must Go is something of a consciously static study in sadness, both well-made and wearying.

| Original Score: B- | May 13, 2011

Will Ferrell's brand of comedy doesn't appeal to me, by and large. My favorites of his films are not the crowd-pleasers, but Stranger than Fiction, an offbeat comedy-drama, and Elf...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.1/2 | May 13, 2011

Taking stock and letting go -- of superfluous things, of worn-out love -- is a strong theme. But the progression of the script is like Nick's self-help program. We're familiar with the steps.

| May 13, 2011

Surprisingly, Ferrell underplays it nicely, neither milking Nick's misfortunes for laughs nor asking for our pity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2011

The big picture is famil iar -- busted middle-age man, suburban alcoholic despair -- yet the details are so finely rendered that the overall impression is potently strange.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 13, 2011

A superstar like Ferrell could coast through disposable comedies, but "Everything Must Go" is a keeper.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 13, 2011

No great epiphanies, just a few days, a little perspective, nicely told.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 12, 2011

Everything can go. Sometimes it does go. The movie tells a pertinent story about what happens next.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2011

Everything Must Go isn't a comedy, but it's not entirely a tragedy, either, and it straddles this razor's edge with a deeply nuanced aplomb.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2011

Will Ferrell delivers a performance of implosive intensity that rings true in every detail.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2011

There's nothing terribly surprising about this movie's dramatic arc, but it's nicely executed, and Ferrell's restrained, almost gentle performance is a revelation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2011

Rush extrapolates a narrative that is less jarring and more familiar than anything in Carver, but nonetheless true to the writer's tough, compassionate and intimately knowing apprehension of masculine defeat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 12, 2011

If he isn't careful, Will Ferrell is going to become a bona fide actor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2011