| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

As a self-help sitcom, it feels both glib and icky. Glicky?

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

No it's not. It's kind of a rubbish story.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 6, 2011

As disposable as a paper cup and, for such promising directors, a serious regression.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2011

A pleasant movie, but no more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2011

It kind of isn't.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2011

I'm pretty sure if I'd seen this movie when I was 17, I would have loved it.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Dec 21, 2010

The journey is aided immeasurably by the casting of Keir Gilchrist as young Craig. He has dark, sensitive eyes and a probity about him that wins you to his side.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2010

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the film's co-writing-directing team, are too principled to tip the film into the slacker reaches of sorrow.

| Original Score: B | Oct 15, 2010

The writing-directing team of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have created a solid mix of serious, darker scenes and flights of fancy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2010

This is a strange failing for the tag team who has handled the wounded so well in previous outings.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Weird. And disappointing.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 8, 2010

It's Kind of a Funny Story manages to affirm the good things in life without ever whitewashing the bad.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2010

Respected indie filmmakers with a niche in social-realist drama try their hand at winsome comedy, fall flat on their critically acclaimed faces.

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 8, 2010

Like a short course of intelligence-numbing anti-depressants: Though it may make you feel temporarily better, it's probably not worth the icky aftertaste.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Disarmingly gentle, sweet and whimsical.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Despite the pleasant, loopy energy and fine performances -- Galiflanakis conjures a surprisingly sad character, and I grew fond of Gilchrist, with his impenetrable black eyes and rosebud mouth -- you walk out of it shaking your head.

| Oct 8, 2010

So many elements, from its setup to scenes of therapy sessions and hallway high jinks, seem as canned as the blandest dayroom Muzak.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Co-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, who directed the gritty indie dramas Half Nelson and Sugar, go all gooey and sentimental here.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2010

A funny and warm film that addresses its serious issues with sensitivity but refuses to become bogged down in somberness.

| Original Score: B | Oct 8, 2010