A remarkably clever ensemble film.

| Jul 16, 2019

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

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

Roos's movie is so aggressively pleased with itself it leaves you feeling it doesn't even need an audience.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 5, 2005

[It] feels like Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia for adolescents.

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

Unabashedly sentimental (cheekily couched in a black-comic guise), with Roos acting as a sort of benevolent god over his characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2005

The narrative sprawls without achieving depth and carries the additional burden of featuring only two or three interesting characters out of 10 candidates.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2005

Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2005

Writer/director Don Roos has fashioned a funny though sometimes bleak and cynical black comedy, with multiple storylines that sometimes connect in jarring fashion.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2005

Happy Endings is the kind of self-conscious puzzle picture in which characters behave in ways that serve the plot but in no way resemble things that actual human beings would be likely to do.

| Jul 15, 2005

Complicated? Yes. Potentially heavy? Sure. But it's also highly engrossing and, in a dark way, ultimately rather sweet.

| Jul 15, 2005

What's so splendid about Happy Endings is the very fact that it fits into no genre whatsoever and at no time while watching it can you say, oh, probably this is going to happen.

| Jul 15, 2005

Happy Endings, its interwoven stories exploring the consequences of sex and the ramifications of procreation, is mildly thought-provoking without using heavy-handed commentary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2005

An intricate ensemble comedy about sex, lies and reproduction, has some messy spots, but overall it's a warm, quirky story about people who seem spiky and real.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2005

Extremely pleasurable and well worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2005

A warm and vital homage to urban cluelessness.

| Jul 15, 2005

You get the feeling a script is a bit beyond itself when words constantly appear on the screen explaining biographies, plot twists and such, and Roos depends on a constant parade of such explanations in Happy Endings.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 15, 2005

Happy Endings has nothing new to say -- and takes way too long not to say it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 15, 2005

Heartfelt but dark comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2005