...a low-key premise that’s employed to engaging and frequently hilarious effect...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 13, 2022

Here is pure exuberance, without all that messy nostalgic yearning. Here is a movie unafraid to come right out and showcase the sheer idiot joy involved in being a boy among boys.

| Jun 15, 2022

Wholly admiring bygone eras, this little indie darling bucked the mainstream and dazzled those looking for something dreamy, yet still honest, for its coarse present day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2021

"Swingers" doesn't really add up to much -- except a good time. But it's smart, funny and cute. With all that going for you, who needs to be money?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2019

What it lacks as a cutting character drama, it makes up for in easily quaffable lifestyle porn, though it's up for debate whether one of those things is equal to the other.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 8, 2015

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

It's not the most creative of plots, but it captures a generation and the down-on-your-luck-in-so-many-ways motif effectively: it's like comfort food, with more heart than Liman usually provides.

| Original Score: 68/100 | Feb 17, 2010

Four guys hang out, kid one another, get into scuffles and flash their gonadal searchlight for available women. Yikes, haven't there been enough variations on the multiple-buddy movie? Actually, no.

| Oct 4, 2009

Director-cinematographer Doug Liman gets points for breathing a bit of life into an already tired indie sub genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2009

One of the sharpest male-oriented comedies of the 1990s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2009

A winningly confident snapshot of the nightlives of a bunch of young showbiz wannabes in a very upto-the-minute Hollywood.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2008

The arc is nothing new, but the writing and pacing make it fresh and energetic, at least enough for it to have became a cult classic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2008

Liman and Favreau concoct a consciously derivative world for these guys, and though it's appropriate to the movie, I got tired of it after a while.

| Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2007

Directed in flair by Doug Liman, with winning performances from Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, this comedy is the most successful since Diner of what could be described as a cycle of "walking and talking" and "hanging out" pictures.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 1, 2006

Ninety minutes spent learning how not to pick up girls. This is what the movies were made for, isn't it?

| Jun 24, 2006

This exercise in indie hipster cool is 'money'--and that's no joke, baby.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2005

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

This movie is definitely "money," baby!

| Apr 9, 2005

Blessed with a brilliantly quotable screenplay, one of the most electric and insightful ever written.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2004

Shows that honesty and humanity aren't incompatible with comedy in modern Hollywood.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 3, 2004