Despite the mordant humour and the full-throttle chaos of Harrelson's performance, we struggle to connect with any emotional truth here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 11, 2017

It struggles to fill the big screen, either emotionally or visually, and after a while Harrelson's say-it-as-it-is persona becomes irritating.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2017

Director Craig Johnson (who also dealt with middle aged angst in his previous film, The Skeleton Twins) has a nicely matter of fact way of showing Wilson's tribulations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2017

A charming performance from Harrelson keeps the disparate elements nicely congealed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2017

The film's bouts of slapstick and sentiment sit slightly oddly with its downbeat tone, but Harrelson is consistently funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2017

Gifted a bulldozing comic creation, Woody Harrelson's stomping Grumpzilla performance powers this fitfully funny git-com that, after a bracingly acidic opening, dilutes into sugary feelgood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2017

[Wilson has] many funny lines and a cast full of first-rate character actors such as Margo Martindale and Judy Greer.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 24, 2017

A few good cameos from David Warshofsky, as a prickly old friend of Wilson's, and Margo Martindale, as a date gone wrong, grace the torpid landscape. But it should all be sharper and funnier than it is.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 24, 2017

The plot opts for cop-out sentimentality and begins to melt into goo.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2017

Woody Harrelson is the only life in this party, a misstep that gives Daniel Clowes' graphic novel the indie-cutesy treatment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2017

Perhaps I've seen one too many movies in which men who need to grow up have to wreak havoc on other people's lives to do it. And this is that one too many.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2017

Like Wilson himself, the movie is a bit of a throwback, out-of-step with the times, but whimsical in its execution.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 24, 2017

A fractured, heartsick, funny adventure in mundane misery.

| Mar 23, 2017

Harrelson is as engaging as the man's personality allows. But Wilson struggles with tone, shifting from monotonously bleak to predictably satirical to improbably sanguine.

| Mar 23, 2017

Craig Johnson, coming to this project from his indie success The Skeleton Twins, can't find the heart in this fractured, disappointed family.

| Mar 23, 2017

Johnson, who made the similarly harsh-yet-humorous "The Skeleton Twins," has the good sense to know that with the right actor in the right role, directing is sometimes as straightforward as pointing the camera and getting out of the way.

| Mar 23, 2017

Clowes turned ink into flesh and blood for his 2001 screenwriting debut Ghost World. He seems to have lost the knack.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2017

One of those films where the whole is not quite as good as the parts. There are plenty of laughs and fun characters to keep us engaged, but they don't add up to an emotionally satisfying story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2017

There's a story here, all right, but it's a heartless and bitter one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 23, 2017

I didn't want to hug it. But I can give it a nice pat on the back.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 23, 2017