Workaholics' Adam DeVine and the disembodied voice of Rose Byrne are wonderfully puerile fun in this sweet but dirty-minded rom-com.

| Feb 12, 2020

Surely, bland cultural insights can't defeat a film whose main attraction is the promise of stupid, raunchy fun? Reader, Jexi fails even at that...

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 14, 2019

The stranded DeVine, for all his goofy charms as an actor, quickly exhausts our patience; he's in nearly every frame of this movie, and his screen partner is a phone, which means a hell of a lot of mugging for the camera.

| Oct 14, 2019

Lucas and Moore's film is filled with bugs, making it easy to unplug from its attempts to entertain and do literally anything else.

| Oct 14, 2019

Jexi feels hopelessly out of step with the moment. Despite its subject matter, it's a flip phone movie in a smart phone world.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 13, 2019

Lucas and Moore write some whiplash funny lines, and since the film is just a throwaway, you can enjoy it on a trivial synthetic revenge-of-the-nerd level.

| Oct 12, 2019

Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have figured out how to modernize one of the most traditional and apparently still essential Hollywood tropes: the Crazy Bitch.

| Oct 11, 2019

A benign, artless, nothing of a movie that feels cobbled together with the same app-driven, gig-economy mentality that Phil is trying to disavow.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 11, 2019

While its mode of argumentation gets weaker as the standard-issue boy-meets-girl-meets-carpe-diem plot progresses, the appealing cast and brisk running time help "Jexi" not wear out its welcome.

| Oct 11, 2019

Unfortunately, the phone can't fix all of the movie's problems.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2019

Nearly everything misfires here - bizarrely so, since we can see where the laughs should come, how they would work, and how a more competent movie would get from A to Z.

| Oct 11, 2019