It's a Disaster Reviews

The film flirts with big ideas about adult relationships, but fails to locate any gravitas about its characters' existential or psychological crises.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

An uneven, underwritten amalgam of comedy, drama and suspense that fails to pack a comedic, emotional or intellectual punch.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.85/10

Despite the strength of his writing and his cast, Berger still falters when it comes to the final act.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

An underbaked comedy about eight people facing their mortality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

There's something about It's a Disaster that's ripe with potential, but a slack atmosphere populated with overeager actors grows tiring, lessening interest in their ultimate fate.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

You need better dialogue than Berger supplies to help It's a Disaster make a liar out of its title.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

[A] practically laugh-free vanity comedy with C-listers facing the apocalypse in the form of a nerve-gas attack on Los Angeles.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Todd Berger's misguided black comedy should come with a complimentary hazmat suit for how poisonously unfunny it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Berger's got some clever ideas, but he does not push far in exploring them. And aside from Cross, there is virtually no one to like among these self-involved suburbanites.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

While Berger's approach to satire and social commentary is somewhat scattershot, his reference-heavy dialogue is sharp enough to allow each cast member to make an impression.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.2/10

It's A Disaster takes on a topic that's on everyone's minds, and twists it into a darkly hilarious dramedy with heart.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Berger peppers the dialogue with enough clever lines and observational humor about the nature of relationships and human fallibility to make for an entertaining and darkly comic film.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Perhaps the first great indie apocalypse potluck comedy.

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There are plenty more surprises in store for the couples who brunch and the lucky audiences who get to watch them do so.

Full Review | Original Score: A

A darkly comic crowd-pleaser built around a strong cast and sharp writing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A pitch-perfect black comedy, catching just the right tone of people blowing small things out of proportion when a really big thing, like Armageddon, is happening.

Full Review | Original Score: 8

The apocalypse is the catalyst for a dissection of modern self-absorption; there's nothing like a major disaster to rouse you from a technologically-induced zombie state.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The end of the world seems like not such a bad thing in Todd Berger's gleefully acidic satire about an awkward brunch that turns into a countdown to actual disaster.

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"It's a Disaster" wouldn't be a bad choice for the last movie you see before life on Earth comes to a crashing halt.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Dark end-of-the-world comedy is witty but mature.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5