For a Good Time, Call... Reviews

Tedious and repellent: avoid.

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An inexorably laughless affair that would make a potent interrogation tool.

Full Review | Original Score: D-

Could a genuinely good, or genuinely funny, movie ever be made about two girls who operate a phone-sex line?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Unfortunately Travis lacks the comedic skill and humanistic insight to make this anything more than Judd Apatow lite.

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If there's one thing more annoying than the dumb mainstream sex comedy, it's the dumb mainstream sex comedy that has aspirations towards indie funk.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

[It] sports such a puppy-ish desire to be liked, but for a really good time, you'd be better off just watching Bridesmaids again.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A shallow movie with nothing new besides than the exalatation of the bonds of female friendship.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

There's a difference between comedy and behavior. For a Good Time, Call... aims for the former but mostly contains the latter.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Consistently tries too hard, one-upping itself with mostly unfunny vulgarity while paying little attention to plot or believable character development.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

A totally forgettable piece of substandard sitcom fluff that will one day be a blip on Ari Graynor's resume.

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The idea that phone sex workers can turn out to be quite different than their disembodied voices imply might be worth exploring by a more earnest, diligent and engaged intelligence than whatever drove this project.

Full Review | Original Score: 73/100

I'm not objecting to the movie on grounds of taste but because it is stupid, vulgar, crass and mercilessly formulaic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Have we really come a long way from chick flicks about women expressing friendship by nursing each other though divorce, cancer and other common losses, to movies in which women can only express love through a windy haze of carnal chatter?

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While the heart of the movie is the at-times strained relationship between the two leads, it all unfolds rather by the numbers, dictated more by the expected arc of such things than the demands of the characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Has emotional authenticity and a decent laugh quotient, but overall enjoyment is marred by general ridiculous and unresolved sub-plots.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A phoned-in sex comedy that arrives with all the charm and warmth of a wrong number

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

I've had more exciting conversations on the phone with my mother.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Adheres to those familiar, looping patterns of joy, rancor and revelation that everyone, in the age of Final Draft, have come to expect of a standard comic screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A super-light R-rated comedy more in the Doris Day tradition than it's willing to acknowledge.

Full Review | Original Score: 4

I watched "For a Good Time" with horror at how awful it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4