Captures the dizzyingly unstable time that is your mid-twenties perfectly.

| Feb 13, 2024

The film is funny, sweet, and enjoyable with a straight forward plot which makes it a perfect hook-up film because no matter when you come back to it, you'll know what's going on.

| Aug 12, 2021

Lefkowitz's tender, sharply observed script gets fleshed out by a handful of genuinely engaging performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 12, 2019

Life Partners exudes with twisty complications that are both enlightening and gently heartbreaking. Messner and Jacobs are fabulously endearing as the joined-by-the-hip besties coping with love and life lessons while dealing with the high expectations.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 8, 2018

It may not be boundary pushing, or revelatory cinema, but Life Partners is easy digestible, inoffensive and just a charming film. The performances are good, the script is solid, and the message is true: best friends are forever.

| Nov 8, 2018

The focus is ultimately on Sasha and Paige's friendship, and how Paige's successes cause Sasha to reflect on her own failures, though being queer is not among them; it's just who she is.

| Aug 24, 2017

Despite a few moments of sitcom silliness, [Leighton] Meester and [Gillian] Jacobs bring that struggle to relatable life.

| Aug 21, 2017

While it's not the most perceptive film exploring the diversity of the lesbian experience, Life Partners has several insightful comic moments that ring true.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 6, 2016

With such generic characters and scenarios, it feels like a sitcom pilot, where lessons are learned and, at the end of the day, everyone winds up right back where they started.

| Jan 9, 2015

Witty, charming and warm with a fine balance between drama and comedy. It's equally wise, funny and tender.

| Original Score: 8.95/10 | Jan 2, 2015

I did laugh a few times. There is some funny stuff in this lightweight comedy, but clearly, I'm not the target audience for this film which is aimed a young women.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 24, 2014

Flawed film about friendship has lots of swearing, drinking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2014

"Life Partners" may be a dispensable sitcom of a movie, but it's charming and cannily made enough to make you hope that both women will granted other opportunities to show what they can do.

| Original Score: B | Dec 12, 2014

It's funny and sweet, with a believable friendship at its core and conflict derived from recognizable experiences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 12, 2014

Unfortunately, Life Partners is more committed to being edgy and relevant than it is to presenting an honest female friendship.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 5, 2014

Why does it feel nearly revelatory to see a film that treats female friendship with respect?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 5, 2014

The two stars display a winning chemistry in this amusingly observant study of female friendship.

| Dec 4, 2014

Meester and Jacobs have an easy, authentic chemistry, but there isn't enough structure or storytelling thrust to sustain interest in the plot: Triumphs, calamities and reunions keep happening, but none contains real dramatic heft.

| Dec 4, 2014

As vanilla plotting and sameness threaten to take over the feature, the stars utilize their charms and subtleties to find a soul to Life Partners, allowing viewers to appreciate the periodically unbearable realities of friendship.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 4, 2014

Fogel refuses to pander by pretending that the girls can fix everything with a hug. Sacrifices must be made.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 4, 2014