Envy Reviews
Reel Film Reviews
...certainly not the flat-out disaster it's been made out to be.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Threat
It is in fact consistently adequate and, in places, achieves nothing short of above-averageness.
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| Original Score: 3/5
MovieWeb
Black and Stiller have an appealing chemistry.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Boston Phoenix
This quirky modern-day fable from Barry Levinson is the kind of movie you appreciate more than enjoy.
Film Freak Central
It's a little like slugs starring in a movie about salt.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
'Envy' may not be a likeable or entirely amusing flick, but it's an intriguing dark comedy with an important lesson about the green-eyed monster within us all.
Film Blather
I choose to see Envy's nigh-nonsensical weirdness as wit rather than ineptitude, and will continue to do so until Levinson comes to my house and calls himself an idiot.
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| Original Score: B
Common Sense Media
It's a long, long time between chuckles.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Suite101.com
Charlie Kaufman possibly could have uncovered this story's true smugness. Instead, Jack Black and Ben Stiller exaggerate what works about their styles to the point of annoyance in a can't-miss misfire akin to John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's "Neighbors."
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| Original Score: 0/4
Cinema Crazed
Here's my pitch for a product. A spray that causes really bad movies to vaporize into air.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Film4
Barry Levinson's career slump continues apace with a wannabe black comedy that's neither dark nor funny.
Top CriticWith so many dubious elements at play, even the half-good ideas get lost in the shuffle.
Envy crawls to its finish through a minefield of poor taste and comedic misfires.
FromTheBalcony
I don't think any critic could have predicted a turkey like this based on the immense level of talent that is involved here.
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| Original Score: D-
Freeze Dried Movies
A primary plot device involves the literal beating of a dead horse -- would they just like to write the reviews for us?
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| Original Score: 4/10
ViewLondon
Not quite as good as it should have been, despite spirited performances from Black and Stiller and Christopher Walken on top crazy bonkers mental form.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Empire Magazine
Featuring two of America's most successful comic actors, you'd think it'd be hilarious. Think again.
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| Original Score: 1/5
The differing styles of the two comedians never meld, but the script is so flabby even an industrial crane couldn't lift it.
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| Original Score: 1/5
