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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJason Reitman's new film skillfully navigates through the personal melodramas of many characters with a nice sense of balance and a sharp appreciation of generational differences.
- 60The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesA huge improvement on the muddled melodrama of Labor Day, Men, Women and Children is still a flawed Jason Reitman film. Its scope is too big, his ambitions too high.
- 50VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangThis painfully well-meaning but largely unpersuasive bid for cross-generational understanding feels at once of-the-moment and too obvious by half, like a less overblown version of “Crash” for the information superhighway.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottVeering between alarmism and cautious reassurance — between technohysteria and shrugging, nothing-new-under-the-sun resignation — Men, Women & Children succumbs to the confusion it tries to illuminate.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThere are a TV season’s worth of soap opera betrayals, melodramatic traumas and blundering efforts to learn from and escape this media miasma.
- 42The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthIt's a shame Reitman goes down such a dull and tired road with his movie, because the cast give some really nice turns.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe first Reitman film to make the 36-year-old director seem about 400 years old.
- 12Slant MagazineChris CabinSlant MagazineChris CabinJason Reitman fails to take into account any of the positive endeavors enabled by social media, which will no doubt be used to promote and market his film.