Director David Gordon Green [...] does little to prevent this derivative riff on Adventures in Babysitting from being compared to better movies that inspired it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 6, 2023

A solid matinee choice.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 23, 2020

The Sitter runs under an hour and a half, but sitting in a dark theater, forced to watch it, you feel that hours of your life are slipping by.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

It's offensive, yes; but it doesn't offend me as a humorist, it offends me as an individual with an I.Q. in the triple digits.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Nov 1, 2018

The Sitter is mediocrity at its finest; too boring to hate and too forgettable to get angry about. Save your money and rewatch Uncle Buck instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 3, 2013

Anyone expecting The Sitter to be an especially memorable trip to the theater may just want to give their own babysitter the night off and stay home with the kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2012

The Sitter is a mess because of a lot of things, but most of the blame should be focused on a lazy script that could have been written in a single afternoon.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 17, 2012

An interesting example of the trailer being better than the film, not because it gave away all the good scenes, but because the scenes are only funny in a vacuum.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 22, 2012

The Sitter is a pretty funny, absurdist 'worst babysitter ever' story that gives glimpses of serious commentary disguised by dick jokes and the David Gordon Green Pineapple Express & Your Highness ethos - without ever surpassing it's predecessors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 26, 2012

Hill has a natural talent for making any situation funny with his deadpan humor, but in The Sitter it only goes so far.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2012

I'm a child of the 80s, as is Green. So his raunchy homage to Adventures in Babysitting did not go without notice. Unfortunately, it did not go with much laughter either.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 6, 2012

A crass, but sweet nod to Uncle Buck, flavored with funny characters, a few sparks of drama, and a few too many cliches.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 22, 2012

I don't think I'm too demanding. All I ask for in a comedy is that it be funny. And in "The Sitter," too often gross-outs and foul language substitute for humor.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 21, 2012

I'm starting to wonder, truly and sincerely, if [director and former indie wunderkind] David Gordon Green is suffering from one of those brain tumors that radically alters one's personality...

| Feb 2, 2012

The movie is funny right from the start, tells its story economically and never comes close to wearing out its welcome.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2012

One of those films for brainless nerds which Hollywood insists on churning out.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2012

81 joyless minutes.

| Jan 25, 2012

Hugely dislikable...

| Jan 22, 2012

This is yet another David Gordon Green comedy that fails to tap into its dark, noirish potential.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 21, 2012