A remarkably clever ensemble film.

| Jul 16, 2019

Potent social satire mixes with multiple characters incapable of telling the truth, especially to themselves, in writer/director Don Roos' enjoyable comedy of deception and dysfunction.

| Original Score: B | Apr 15, 2009

There's a little fanciful magic to spread over this flighty romance on the run, or at least enough to take that hackneyed notion of the happy ending, and fashion something fresh and new.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2007

Rarely has a film started so brilliantly and then so willfully shot itself directly in the foot.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2006

A quirky and often enjoyable film about dysfunctional relationships, Happy Endings brings together separate stories about complicated characters who are all trying to deal with the truth.

| Mar 16, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The cast is a who's who, a who's not, and a who might one day be; they're the best part of a picture that is unnecessarily complex.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 24, 2005

Happy Endings is two-thirds of a really good film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2005

The most satisfying film of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2005

An unsuccessful attempt is made to tie all these loose threads together into one coherent story.

| Original Score: C | Sep 4, 2005

...an uneven, sometimes rambling journey that elicits mostly false emotion with regard to the payoff suggested by its title.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2005

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 27, 2005

Lisa Kudrow's sporting serious brown hair. Tom Arnold's wearing a rare dramatic frown. So we know Happy Endings isn't likely to be a frivolous comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2005

Intriguing but overlong and indulgent, the work of a writer too in love with his characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2005

Serves as a relaunching pad for the magical talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jude.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2005

...although it's generally entertaining throughout, Happy Endings just doesn't have the emotional impact that Roos is clearly striving for.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2005

Overstuffed with characters and contrivances.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2005