Everything Must Go Reviews
We Got This Covered
Good performances by Ferrell and Wallace and fantastic cinematography make Everything Must Go an enjoyable watch.
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| Original Score: 7/10
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The best movie Will Ferrell ever made
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
TheMovieReport.com
Gentle understatement that stealthily but surely gets under the skin and touches the heart.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
What Culture
Everything Must Go is a pleasantly engaging, entertaining human portrait - a journey that doesn't physically stray very far, but which treads a million metaphorical miles within its main character as he attempts to go from broken man to redeemed man.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Fan The Fire
For a film that preaches giving it all away, Everything Must Go could have done with being a little more bold.
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| Original Score: 2/5
What Culture
Cue self pity, followed by despair, followed by resignation, hope and redemption...Screenwriter/director Dan Rush...opts for this standard redemption arc.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Observer [UK]
I found this a delicately observed, satisfying movie and greatly enjoyed it.
Real.com
Ferrell is far more impressive in a straighter role ... as he controls his own brand of zaniness and channels it as bittersweet irony and humour into ordinary events.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
The laughs are gentle, Nick is a pleasingly ambiguous character and the anti-materialism message is admirable.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is London
A well-controlled film with a portrait at its centre that is astonishingly complete.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Express
It may stray into a few redundant subplots along the way but Everything Must Go succeeds as a plaintive portrait of a man cast adrift from all the past certainties of his life.
Daily Mail [UK]
Too insubstantial to be a full-length feature.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
A pleasing, satisfying chamber-piece.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little White Lies
Like a bad date; it's attractive, clever, but lacks a sense of humour.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Quickflix
It can't escape the crippling clichés of similar films that have come before it, and there are far too many Cameron Crowe-ian platitudes littered throughout the screenplay to remind us that we are indeed watching a movie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Film Blather
Everything here's too indie-sanitized to even be properly sad. It certainly isn't funny.
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| Original Score: C
Digital Spy
The individual performances are solid and Ferrell clearly has dramatic chops. Somehow, though, it turns out to be less than the sum of its parts.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film Snobs
Will Ferrell isn't stunt casting--his size and deadpan are essential to the character.
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| Original Score: 8/10
The Ooh Tray
Everything Must Go is an intimate and engaging affair, anchored by a fine performance from Ferrell in a role that required a surfeit of subtleties.
About.com
Everything Must Go is a fine film on it's own, though the resolution, a happy ending of sorts, is far too clean and tidy considering its inspiration.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
