Jeff Who Lives at Home Reviews
Top CriticIt feels incomplete and the ending is entirely too convenient. We've seen all of this before.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Slant Magazine
For the most part, this is a boys-will-be-boys movie that excuses everything its pair of protags do in the name of some sort of cosmic order.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jeff, Who Lives at Home is fine as an outline for a film, but the Duplass brothers fail to finish the thought.
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| Original Score: C
Daily Express
Nothing much happens until a preposterously contrived and melodramatic climax.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film School Rejects
It's short of that essential added spectacle, the visceral, tumultuous event that really shakes up the characters and creates a journey worth taking.
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| Original Score: 2/4
ComingSoon.net
The type of lazy storytelling we've come to expect from actual studio movies with not a particularly fulfilling way to end the movie
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| Original Score: 6/10
Segel ... seems to be staking his claim on just about any sweet, clueless character that comes along. He should be more discriminating.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Trend
Three funny and likable people not given a chance to be funny or likable
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| Original Score: 2/5
Financial Times
A squandering of space, time and actor/part-time screenwriter Jason Segel, last seen revivifying the Muppets.
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| Original Score: 1/5
HollywoodChicago.com
I SO want to love "Jeff, Who Lives at Home," but this dude is too often stuck in the creative basement.
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| Original Score: 3.0/5.0
RedEye
[The Duplass brothers] start in the corner and never get out, wrapping a weak idea around characters that spend too much time as Dopey and Grouchy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Reeling Reviews
A good cast and some comic moments make "Jeff, Who Lives at Home" an intermittently engaging sit, but even at an economical 84 minutes, it takes too long to get to places that are all too obvious to see from a distance.
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| Original Score: C+
A sitcom would set these events in motion and 22 minutes later have them solved. This is a sitcom at four times the length, 10 percent the amusement, and triple the amount of nauseating photography.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Oh, goody, another movie about Lumberus manchildus.
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| Original Score: 1/5
There are some funny scenes in which the two brothers spy on the wife, who may be having an affair, but the movie's climax is a badly contrived attempt to ratify Jeff's notion of personal destiny.
Film Threat
With their fourth film, Mark and Jay Duplass achieve the seemingly impossible. Against all odds, they've managed to make a comedy that harnesses the considerable talents of Jason Segel and Ed Helms, but never quite gets around to being funny.
Cinemalogue.com
It's a pretty thin concept for a feature, with some potent one-liners and sight gags that are more sporadic than consistent.
Austin Chronicle
There's something to be admired in this new interest in a macro lens on the universe's workings. If only it didn't take wading through so much drear to get to that divine.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
NY1-TV
The filmmakers offer a few interesting moments, but the overall picture doesn't really add up to much.
