A.C.O.D. Reviews

"A.C.O.D." is sitcom-y, but in the sense that it's a neatly arced comedy w/a steady stream of jokes, delivered by a professionals who efficiently hit every punchline.

Full Review | Original Score: B

There's an undertone of score-settling to this not-so-romantic comedy, a bitterness that's sometimes unpleasant and sometimes wickedly funny.

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A.C.O.D. is reasonably pleasant and therapeutic and antiseptic and you just wish somebody would bring a chandelier down on somebody else at some point.

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Mature farce about divorce has some hilarious bits.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The screenplay simply doesn't provide enough reasons to feel bad for Adam Scott's Carter amid his personal crisis.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Director Stuart Zicherman, who wrote the screenplay for A.C.O.D. with Ben Karlin, must have drawn on his own life here, and he has drawn extremely well, for this is one very funny film.

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[A] pointless, meaningless and witless comedy ...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

"A.C.O.D." is a sharp, dark-ish character comedy, settling for a dry tolerance in its point of view that is very appealing and even admirable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The spectacular cast makes the most of the sharp dialogue and depictions of world-class boundary issues.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

It's downright criminal that Zicherman had the cast he did, stacked with stars from Parks and Recreation, Best In Show, Step Brothers, The Office and Party Down, and yet the result is as flaccid and stale as this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Mr. Zicherman needs a better crew, some time with the Criterion Collection and a fresher story, one perhaps not plucked from his own life.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Even with Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O'Hara, Jane Lynch and Amy Poehler on board, the results are regrettably forgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A spotty comedy with a great cast and a catchy title that falls apart in the final third.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Any movie starring these justly adored actors is likely to have its share of highlights and both are, indeed, delightful to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

First-time director Stu Zicherman deserves the most praise just for assembling this cast, and particularly for giving Scott such a big role. These are astonishingly talented people who do most of the heavy lifting.

Full Review | Original Score: B

It's too broad to qualify as incisive, too mild to rise above the level of amusing.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

It's neither consistently funny nor poignant enough to make the most of its impressive cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

This is the sort of movie you watch on a long flight because you like at least one of the cast members, and you laugh a few times, and then you forget that you ever saw it.

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Too sluggish for farce and too glib for a trenchant social satire, A.C.O.D. is several sessions short of a breakthrough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Zicherman should have trusted his dark instincts; he did too much micromanaging of his own.

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