What it does best is nail the angst of people realising that the birth of their baby also means the death of cool.

| May 23, 2023

Byrne walks away with the film by making Kelly a well-rounded, conflicted person, rather than the film's fun cop who has to tell everyone the boring truth.

| Sep 22, 2016

It may seem counterintuitive to praise the emotional maturity of a movie whose climax includes a dildo fight, but there you have it.

| Jun 18, 2016

Most of the non-leads are underdrawn but laughs keep coming, only just bouncing this up from three stars to four.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2014

Banal riffs on pop culture themes vie for laughs with depressing jokes about tits, balls and dicks. The low-point has Byrne (who I hope was well paid) being "milked" by Rogen. Whatever happened to comedy?

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2014

The young married couple does something cruel, and then the idiot frat guys next door respond, and back and forth it goes. I laughed, but not uproariously and not often enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 10, 2014

It's Apatow without the Apatow, all ornaments and no tree.

| May 9, 2014

As as tensions escalate, Teddy and Peter's partnership proves just as central and perhaps more vulnerable than Mac and Kelly's. Score one for growing up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2014

Rogen's always a dominating presence, but [Byrne], who showed her comic chops in Bridesmaids, comes close to stealing the movie here, in an uncorked performance full of volatile, liberating mischief.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2014

One of the great surprises of Neighbors is both the gentle way with which it handles a nimrod party animal like Teddy and how good Efron is at playing him.

| May 9, 2014

It's gross, all right, but rarely funny -- unless jokes about alcohol-laced breast milk is your thing.

| Original Score: C | May 9, 2014

I miss the days when comedy scripts were lovingly honed, with dialogue that sang not stuttered. But at least Stoller manages to avoid many of the clichs of the raunchy bromance genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2014

The performances are solid. Rogen does his usual, husky-boy geek thing while Efron seems more comfortable as a dreamboat than as a doctor in last year's Parkland. It's the script that lets them down.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2014

Fortunately, Rogen and Byrne make for an appealingly frazzled and conflicted couple.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2014

It's the most rollicking frat comedy since Revenge of the Nerds II. (Miss you, Booger.)

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2014

You laugh a lot. And you don't feel guilty for a second.

| Original Score: B+ | May 9, 2014

Some funny moments, especially a Robert DeNiro-themed frat party, get lost in a tidal wave of stupid humor assuming way too much inherent humor in being a man-boy.

| Original Score: C | May 8, 2014

Unfortunately, concise comedy gives way to desperation less that halfway through, and we're left with the spectacle of adults embracing extreme immaturity just because they can.

| Original Score: C- | May 8, 2014

This raunchy unrooting of a settled suburban idyll exposes the considerable angst of emerging adulthood with a kind of scatological fervor designed to elicit oodles of inappropriate laughs.

| May 8, 2014

Neighbors is the Animal House for an era in which food fights seem quaint.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 8, 2014