Critic consensus:Smart, funny, and powered by fine performances from Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson, Drinking Buddies offers a bittersweet slice of observational comedy.

Numbered reviews:1. Mr. Swanberg's camera weaves through bodies at rest, at work and at the bar in no particular hurry, and his script captures the idioms of men and women who are equally inclined to waste words and to say very little.
2. It simply nails the reality of late twentysomethings and early thirtysomethings struggling with relationships - friends and lovers.
3. Swanberg and his cast do a great job mining all the little insecurities and jealousies that manifest themselves between men and women and the sexual tension that invades male/female friendships.
4. It feels mumblecore-ishly vague and rambling in its construction, like Hannah Takes the Stairs without the raffish charm.
5. This looks like a string of screen tests and home movie outtakes of the actors getting hammered on set. It's "Grown Ups 2" for the art house crowd.
6. An intimate and beautifully-observed drama. (Writer-director) Joe Swanberg's best, most accessible/identifiable film to date.
7. There's more plot, and scripted dialogue, here than in Swanberg's earlier, mumblecore work. But authenticity still comes first.
8. There is an organic feel to "Drinking Buddies" that will be familiar to anyone who has had one.
9. The characters may seem real, yet they're not very interesting. And worst of all, the beer flows but the movie doesn't.
10. For all the broken hearts, this is a sublimely joyful film.


Critic consensus:This Squeakquel may entertain the kiddies, but it's low on energy and heavily reliant on slapstick humor.

Numbered reviews:1. Surely this qualifies as cruelty to humans.
2. It's not all quite as absurdly endearing as the first film was, but it's still pretty darn cute, and almost entirely inoffensive, certainly as kids' movies go.
3. Its young target audience will find this latest Chipmunks iteration entertaining. The story is simple enough for little kids to follow and at 88 minutes the movie does not wear out its welcome.
4. It seems as if no professional actors were hired in the making of this motion picture.
5. Funnniest moment? The loud snores from a fellow critic at the press preview.
6. Betty Thomas delivers pretty much the bare minimum: peppy, brightly colored, tune-filled nonsense sure to meet the low, low standards of its pre-kindergarten core audience.
7. Will kids eat up this cutely fractious claptrap? Of course they will. They'll eat up whatever you put in front of them. But that doesn't make The Squeakquel good for them.
8. [It] could be the most aggressively terrible movie of the year.
9. There's a lot of parents that will roll their eyes at this movie. However, it is very cute if you can get in the spirit of the movie, and kids are going to love it.
10. It's far from the most unpleasant kiddie flick I've sat through this year, although I would be misleading you if I promised you lots of laughs.


Critic consensus:A potent and lithely constructed documentary about America's financial crisis, I.O.U.S.A grabs you with figures but holds you with irreverent wit.

Numbered reviews:
1. Think of this important documentary as Economics 101, a primer on how America and Americans spend, and what hardships the future holds for us unless we change the pattern and our habits quickly.
2. Well made, informative and genuinely terrifying documentary, in which the use of humour can't quite diminish the spectre of doom and gloom.
3. If more people had watched this film, they might still have their houses.
4. Bottom line: The party's over. There's no such thing as a free lunch. America itself may be a bubble.
5. I.O.U.S.A manages to keep this dense, dry information dynamic enough to be interesting and terrifying enough to be important.
6. Fending off the global repo man
7. Practically begs audiences to declaim it essential viewing, rather than quietly convincing us
8. For a film starring the national debt, this is a good one. The expected tedious numerical research is accompanied by excellent graphics and archival footage that bring it alive. Is anyone listening?
9. Its aim is to raise awareness of an impending financial disaster if America continues acting fiscally and morally irresponsible.
10. If you believe the terrifying documentary I.O.U.S.A., America is headed for a financial crisis of monumental proportions - and apparently, we are probably too late to keep it from happening.