The Five-Year Engagement feels like a step down from Segel and Stoller’s previous films together, but there’s enough sentimentality and comedic charm here to grant a solid recommendation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 20, 2022

The Five-Year Engagement is in many ways the inverse of every Hollywood movie like it. Also, it's really funny.

| Mar 4, 2021

Splashes of slapstick, a dash of vulgar humor, generous helpings of uncomfortable awkwardness, and a pinch of melodrama season the film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 1, 2020

Offers a more thoughtful and reflective comedy that still manages to never lose its humorous touch.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

There are plenty of laughs to be had, and there's certainly an earnest quality that helps push it up above your normal, run-of-the-mill romantic comedy.

| Original Score: B | Aug 3, 2020

The end is so good it almost saves the movie. Almost.

| Original Score: C | Jul 11, 2020

[Nicholas] Stoller has created a refreshing film, which offers a realistic edge in an otherwise clichéd genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2019

This comedy of romantic manners is bloated, soft in the middle and belted with a too-skinny storyline, but, hey, it's got enough belly laughs to get by-and a pair of terrifically engaging lead actors in Jason Segel and Emily Blunt.

| Jul 31, 2019

A crowd-pleasing, smartly drawn, character-driven exploration of relationship dynamics with plenty of laughs to keep it going.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Segel and Blunt are so talented that it's hard not to find a little joy in some moments, but this is a film in serious need of a little editing -- and one that pales in comparison to Segel's and Stoller's previous work.

| Apr 12, 2019

It has emotional heft, with no frantic, last-minute drives to the airport, just a male and female lead who not only share actual, proper, bona fide chemistry - hallelujah! Praise be! - but are also allowed to go head-to-head as equals.

| Sep 1, 2018

One of those romantic comedies that spends too much time unnecessarily creating drama for its characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2018

The Five-Year Engagement is sweet without being saccharine and real without being gloomy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 28, 2017

At more than the two hours, The Five-Year Engagement outstays its welcome like a drunken, microphone-hogging best man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2017

There is an extremely satisfying, mature, giddy happy ending, even while future issues remain unresolved.

| Sep 18, 2017

Probably should have just focused on the Chris Pratt and Alison Brie characters.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 23, 2013

More often, the movie reduces everything to sitcom levels of tidiness and routine.

| Jun 20, 2013

You'd be challenged to laugh once during a two-hour-plus slog in which much of the intended hilarity resides in frequent utterances of the F-bomb, venison and Wham! posters.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 2, 2013

It's a bit over-stuffed, but the narrative does come full-circle and successfully balances charming comedy gags grounded in a memorable and contemporary love story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 27, 2012

You'll definitely laugh and it's hard to resist the adorableness factor of Blunt and Segel.

| Original Score: 7.5 | Sep 17, 2012