Blending Jennifer Westfeldt's talky, observational style with the kind of irreverent humour that helped Bridesmaids bridge the gender divide, Friends With Kids explores love, marriage and child-rearing with gusto and wit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2012

Westfeldt's screenplay is often sharp, shrewd and funny...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2012

If you see this on at the cinema, walk on by.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 28, 2012

It's left to the wonderful Scott, with his satyr's face and killer timing, to carry the movie through thick and thin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2012

Sadly the film then downhill-races to a feelgood, feel-inauthentic ending. But for 90 of 107 minutes it is cracklingly good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2012

It's difficult to muster the will to get behind these fools, and yet there are stretches where Westfeldt's script glows, such as an expertly executed dinner-table fracas, which manages to engage the entire ensemble.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2012

It's safe to assume its sharp comments on what kids can do to marriage - and friendships - come from years of observation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2012

It benefits from a supernaturally engaging cast, but this treads too closely to the rom-com model to feel as smart or moving as Westfeldt's previous best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2012

There's much to like here but it's a bumpy ride and for all its banter, it takes itself very seriously.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2012

The climax sent me out of the theatre scratching my head, and even though I enjoyed the majority this isn't exactly the sort of reaction I'm guessing the writer/director was hoping for.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2012

| Original Score: A- | Mar 10, 2012

Pleasant but overfamiliar.

| Mar 9, 2012

Sitcom-amusing, in that middle-of-the-road way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2012

It's the kind of cutesy idea that doesn't ring remotely true.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 9, 2012

[A] crass, shallow cash-in.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 9, 2012

The candid sexual conversations define this as a film made by, and for, adults...but who says grownups don't want romantic fulfillment in movies?

| Mar 9, 2012

Whom is this movie for, really? It's too tame for the whooping crowds of women who made hits of the Sex and the City movies and Bridesmaids. And for sure it isn't for parents with kids.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2012

It is our loss, as a movie-going collective, that we're only getting a new Jennifer Westfeldt movie every five or so years.

| Mar 9, 2012

[Westfeldt] makes a promising directorial debut with this good-natured dramedy, boosted in large part by an outstanding ensemble.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2012