The film is packed with smart humor, joke complexity, clever approaches, and an elaborate sense of story-building and delivery that most parodies lack.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

…makes fun of rom-conventions while slavishly following them…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2023

The jokes can be specific to a hermetic extreme: I don’t think the gag cutting from an exterior shot of the Strand bookstore to an interior that’s a smaller, different establishment might travel outside NYC, but it’s still a great niche joke...

| Jan 24, 2023

...a brilliant satire of one of cinema's most beloved film genres, the romantic comedy.

| Feb 11, 2022

Maintains a high level of humor and self-awareness for its entire run time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2021

The film plays out as an entertaining subversion of its genre.


| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 26, 2021

Feels stretched a little thin at feature length. As a skit or a short film it might have been a cutting parody of an over-worked genre. At eighty-three minutes it is harder to love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

They Came Together is over-the-top stupid, in the most exuberant, silliest and, yet smartest of ways... but you'll only enjoy it if you get it, much like Airplane! and other classic goofball parodies.

| Jan 21, 2021

It's not as raunchy as the title suggests, but Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler pull off a hilarious sendup of every rom-com cliché with only a few (easily forgivable) missteps.

| Oct 10, 2020

Had Wain and screenwriter Michael Showalter bothered to write actual characters rather than a slew of gimmicks strung together, perhaps They Came Together would have had a little heft.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2019

While not every joke lands, They Came Together's comically decadent nature provides more than enough overall.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2019

They Came Together's euphemistic title is a pre-warning to the calibre of comedy available, which is too abrasive and reliant on gross-out vulgarity to feel like an intelligent and relevant satire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

It's all mildly entertaining (mostly because of the two leads), but too often comes off like either an extended Saturday Night Live sketch or an actual (and bad) romantic comedy.

| Jun 19, 2018

... if you like rom-coms and/or laughing at familiar things, They Came Together will do you fine.

| Oct 20, 2017

Not every gag completely works, but there's enough genuinely funny writing here to keep audiences laughing throughout the movie's 83 entertaining minutes.

| Oct 5, 2016

It's still possible to make a spoof movie that is biting, merciless, clever, and (most importantly) uproariously funny.

| Jun 18, 2016

In an era where much of the spoof genre simply lazy repeats scenarios, [the film] brilliantly and hilariously deconstructs every aspect of the genre to provide one of the funniest films one is bound to see this year.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 28, 2016

The film feels fatuous and irritatingly complacent. Everybody's calling attention to the barrage of familiar clichés without doing much to subvert them.

| Jun 9, 2015

Rom-com tropes like the ''meet-cute'' are so tired that you can't just spoof them -- you have to spoof the spoofs, which this winking David Wain-Michael Showalter parody mostly succeeds at doing.

| Original Score: B | Dec 3, 2014

Hopefully will shame a few screenwriters into not writing that next Jessica Biel-Ashton Kutcher film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2014