The movie's lingering close-ups on yearning faces and heart-to-heart conversations force the fake Millers into real familial longing that's more bogus than the family itself.

| Jan 3, 2014

Naturally, there are roadblocks galore -- but the breezy film stays one mile ahead in terms of plot and punch lines

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2013

The central conceit is well established, the comedy is often impressively sour and the four leads complement one another beautifully.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2013

It's a goofy road movie with some nice gags.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2013

This is a fine collection of cheap and sleazy jokes, well-told ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2013

With jokes cloned from bad taste movies and off-kids-telly villains, it doesn't even qualify for dumb fun.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2013

A likeable comedy that uses its greatest asset, its talented, funny cast, to good effect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2013

Stays mean and maintains a bit of an edge even when it threatens to go all soft and gooey.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 10, 2013

It boils down to the idea that men and women alike yearn for what they don't have, and that making your way through life is about seizing the bizarre opportunities it thrusts at you.

| Aug 8, 2013

Though incredibly predictable from start to finish, "We're the Millers" did make me laugh.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 8, 2013

While its plot points are pedestrian at best, the genius -- at least, the definite charm -- of We're the Millers is its notion of family as something beyond a simple blood connection, particularly when exigent circumstances create the ties that bind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2013

As a comedy couple, [Aniston] and Sudeikis aren't exactly Cheech and Chong, but their well-matched timing and clashing attitudes often create comic sparks that erupt into laughter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2013

a movie written by a committee, too long, but the cast carries it a long way, these mild virtues don't quite add up to a recommendation, but if you said you wanted to see it I wouldn't block the door.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2013

Though the cast partially eschews the family-friendly timidity that the film defers to in the end, this would-be wild thing remains little more than a rowdy endorsement of the status quo.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2013

The plot isn't particularly sound and some jokes fall flat, but the appeal of watching this 'family' come together is so enjoyable and satisfying, it makes the film a worthy watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2013

The filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions, falling back on moments of egregiously false sentimentality whenever the material threatens to turn dark.

| Aug 7, 2013

The result is a loose conglomeration of jokes that never really holds together: Funny in parts, but overwhelmed by the bland emptiness where its protagonist should be.

| Aug 7, 2013

Even tastelessness needs to have some taste. The blue humor in We're the Millers is just bland.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 7, 2013

Everyone on screen is slumming a little in this silly comedy.

| Original Score: C | Aug 7, 2013

The laughs may come in fits and starts, usually by way of sight gags and set pieces, but they do come. And then they go.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 7, 2013