A.C.O.D. Reviews
CinemaBlend.com
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Top CriticZicherman should have trusted his dark instincts; he did too much micromanaging of his own.
AV Club
It's too broad to qualify as incisive, too mild to rise above the level of amusing.
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| Original Score: C+
Too sluggish for farce and too glib for a trenchant social satire, A.C.O.D. is several sessions short of a breakthrough.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
Stu Zicherman's amusing but formulaic man-in-crisis comedy has neither a fully realised protagonist nor a clear message.
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| 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.
Screen International
A.C.O.D.'s smooth establishment of its sharp, funny characters can't sustain the film's momentum.
amNewYork
The screenplay simply doesn't provide enough reasons to feel bad for Adam Scott's Carter amid his personal crisis.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The Dissolve
It's neither consistently funny nor poignant enough to make the most of its impressive cast.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Mr. Zicherman needs a better crew, some time with the Criterion Collection and a fresher story, one perhaps not plucked from his own life.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Carter's existential crisis simply isn't interesting enough to sustain the movie, even at a scant 87 minutes, no matter how likable the leading man.
A spotty comedy with a great cast and a catchy title that falls apart in the final third.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Even with Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O'Hara, Jane Lynch and Amy Poehler on board, the results are regrettably forgettable.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Vulture
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.
The Playlist
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.
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| Original Score: B
We Got This Covered
A.C.O.D. was made for Adam Scott, and with our writers deciding to keep the themes light and breezy, it's a good thing he was there to pick up the slack.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Film School Rejects
Zicherman, who also directed the film, has brought together a strong comedic cast, but he also utilizes them well to create a funny film that even those of us who are not A.C.O.D.s (see: me) can relate to.
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| Original Score: B+
What Culture
Disappointingly opts for broad humour over genuine drama in its second half, but anyone who has been through a similar situation will find it undeniably resonant.
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| Original Score: 3/5
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Funny, sharply observed but a little slow.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
