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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2012

Now is the time, surely, for David Gordon Green to return to the arthouse Terrence Malick persona that first won us over a decade ago.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 19, 2012

David Gordon Green's latest beer-soakage comedy contains one, just one, reminder of what made him a hugely promising independent filmmaker a decade ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 19, 2012

Not Superbad, just quite bad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2012

A noisy, unfocused, frequently annoying and intermittently offensive slapstick misfire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 17, 2011

The Sitter is frightfully spare on full-bodied laughs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 16, 2011

It does not care for your soft comedy.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 14, 2011

The Sitter wants to have its urinal cake and eat it too, pushing the envelope of taste one minute and then delivering maudlin little life lessons the next.

| Dec 13, 2011

Dull and instantly forgettable, a nostalgia trip that takes you nowhere worth going.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2011

The Sitter seems to have a good heart, so why all the glib racism?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 9, 2011

Hill plays Noah with just the right amount of self-loathing, deep down convinced of his own merit, not needing to humiliate anyone to prove it.

| Dec 9, 2011

A weirdly charming comedy that puts an irresponsible guy in charge of three unhappy kids. Who'll crumble first?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2011

Jonah Hill brings the piece enough of his stellar comic timing to make the comedy a decent one to catch on cable on a rainy day, but can't save a film that needed a few more rewrites and at least one more trip to the editing bay.

| Original Score: 2.5/5.0 | Dec 9, 2011

Whips you around from ludicrous bit to bit, trying to pack in every gag possible, resulting in a piece that's not all that structurally sound or funny, but mildly enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 9, 2011

Somehow, even in this foul climate, Hill manages to stay likeable, although the strain definitely shows. The same cannot be said of director David Gordon Green.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 9, 2011

The script is just a lazy series of set-ups and its two premises collide uncomfortably.

| Original Score: C | Dec 9, 2011

[Its] most valuable contribution to the cinematic landscape is its blessedly brief 80-minute running time.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 9, 2011

It's smart, funny, agreeably perverse and simultaneously abrupt and exhausting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2011