| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2011

The Joneses starts with a great pitch but ultimately fails to close the deal.

| Apr 12, 2011

Borte, directing his first film, does a smooth, confident job, so that even though the set-up isn't quite plausible you're happy to go along with it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2011

Exceptionally thoughtful, not only in terms of consumerism, but when considering the value of compassion as well. Worth your hard earned money, no strings attached.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2010

This cautionary tale depicts consumers who believe they deserve stuff, whether or not they can pay for it. Rarely is this kind of truth seen onscreen in such a subtle and entertaining film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2010

Here is a smart, entertaining satire on greed and materialism among America's leisured classes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2010

The Joneses never makes it into full on satire but is smart and clear enough in its setup not to have to spell out a message in some soapy conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2010

Borte's conceit is a fun one to be in on, but basically too synthetic to have the satirical bite it wants -- it's more a playful fantasy of consumerist whim than an edgy expos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2010

A meta-satire that doesn't quite come off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2010

The film doesn't just have its cake and eat it. It makes you want to upgrade that cake to a chic Ladure macaroon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 22, 2010

There's a nicely cynical streak at the heart of The Joneses, until Borte goes soft and lets the audience off the hook.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2010

Mr. Borte conjures up a pleasant Stepford that runs less on robotic conformity than on endless, anxious competition. The key to the film is that it allows this life to have some real appeal.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2010

A cheeky little commentary on modern consumption, The Joneses offers an uneasy balance between what's funny and what's not, staying just edgy enough to be uncomfortable while hitting its targets.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 16, 2010

[Demi Moore is] She's one reason to see writer-director's Derrick Borte's zeitgeist fable The Joneses. Though she's not the only one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 16, 2010

It makes for good, although not great, satire of the consumer culture that helped wreck the economy.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2010

Grammarians, if few others, will be satisfied.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 16, 2010

By the end, The Joneses feels a little too satisfied with its own admittedly clever conceit and for the broad leeway it allows itself in the creative bandying of logos and slogans.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 16, 2010