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

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

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

The charming story about millennial confusion is deftly written by Susanna Fogel (who also directs) and Joni Lefkowitz, and the dialog actually sounds like the way a pair of smart and funny twentysomethings might really talk.

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

On paper Life Partners has what it takes to be a gem of a character-based indie, but as executed, I'm sorry to report, this movie borders on insufferable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 4, 2014

Most of the time, the banter doesn't sound like banter; the movie shares Sasha and Paige's unforced shorthand.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 4, 2014

Fogel's focus is female friendship, and the challenges presented by growing older and pairing up. It all makes for a rocky road, regardless of the romantic rival's gender.

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

Limited by the same arch tone and flippant jokes that suffocate every other low-budget indie about Gen Y confronting adulthood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2014

"A waxen falseness suffuses the stilted, stubbornly generic picture. Like the fast-food mozzarella sticks one of the characters devours in moments of existential woe, it feels like a calculated imitation rather than the real thing."

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

Fogel and Lefkowitz go for a loose, funny vibe that allows them freedom to serve a range of different characters and subplots, but the center of their movie doesn't hold.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 10, 2014

A well-scripted, intriguingly-acted effort to mine the theme of prolonged adolescent best-buddyism through two women.

| Sep 29, 2014

Life Partners travels some very familiar ground, but the strength of its writing, the honesty of its plot, and the charm of its leading ladies means that it's a real cut above the rest of its genre brethren.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 29, 2014

These characters, all of whom feel fleshed out and thoroughly lived-in, constitute the foundation of a story that unfolds organically, blessedly free of the twee self-regard common to films about millennials in flux.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2014