| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

An odd love poem for cynics who have thrown sentimentality into the garbage.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 22, 2008

Robert Carey directs his cast with zest and the film plays its laughs with a sense of gentle sardonic smirk that makes it inoffensive yet tart.

| Feb 21, 2008

Ira & Abby may drive you into therapy, but you'll be chuckling all the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2008

The steady addition of more and more characters served to fragment what could have been a charming romantic comedy.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 3, 2008

Ira and Abby may be a divorce comedy, but the perfect marriage of two comically inspired minds, director Robert Cary (Anything But Love) and writer/star Jennifer Wesfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) is irresistible.

| Jan 26, 2008

"Ira & Abby" doesn't throw out the romantic comedy rule book, but it occasionally shuffles the pages a little for comic effect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

In the season that has seen such loathsome films as Good Luck Chuck and The Heartbreak Kid, Ira & Abby is remarkable proof that a compelling and funny love story can appear on celluloid.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2007

On paper, Ira and Abby sounds like a sitcom (in fact, it sounds like Dharma & Greg). But intelligence and fine acting shoves it up several notches.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2007

It spends so much time reminding of how quaint and kooky it is throughout that you may find yourself pulling out your wallet or purse and offering it some of your hard-earned money if it will agree to just simmer down and go away

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2007

The movie benefits from an exceptionally strong line-up of supporting characters beautifully played by a top-notch cast.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2007

Ira & Abby has plenty of sharp details, mostly verbal, and it gives old pros and newer faces a chance to show off their poker-faced comic wiles.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2007

Ira & Abby is like its characters: nice with a lot of problems.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Ira & Abby is a charming film, but it's nearly great when it settles down and causally explores life's often strange complications.

| Original Score: B | Oct 11, 2007

The group-therapy scene that wraps it up brings those substantial themes together in a way that's uproariously funny.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 11, 2007

The result is light but surprisingly fresh, and even a bit insightful.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2007

Offers some smiles and rueful insights about the vicissitudes of love, but its almost slavish imitation of the Woody Allen formula ultimately makes it seem stale.

| Original Score: C | Oct 7, 2007

Ira & Abby, in its breezy, low-key way, will make audiences happy -- something [director] Westfeldt already knows how to do.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2007

A mixed bag with a lot of cutesy awfulness to wade through, but the acerbic ending is enough of a punchline to suggest that Westfeldt understands what a joke this kind of film can be.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 5, 2007

It was all so fresh and funny -- when Woody Allen did it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2007