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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Mar 2014

Rockwell is incapable of being boring, so there’s some small entertainment to be found in watching his buttoned-up beta male blossom into…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Mar 2014

Amusing but not as funny or suspenseful as it could be…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 12 Mar 2014

Good work remains despite obvious obstacles, though it's disheartening to see the production settle for less when closing out this entertaining…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 12 Mar 2014

If the behavior of the characters had been more recognizably human in its venality, and the film's perspective more ruthless, this custom-made…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Mar 2014

Never feels as triumphant or as affecting as it should, but the script boasts some amusing meanness of spirit…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 11 Mar 2014

The cloying narration and the inclusion of Fonda are just warnings for that moment, 70 minutes in, when this comic chemical train goes completely…

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By John Hazelton (142) for Screen International (2,241) on 10 Mar 2014

Even the primary characters - Rockwell and Wilde get most of the screen time - are pretty two-dimensional and the film itself never finds another…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2014

A sexily chaotic parody of entitlement becomes just another tale of a white dude learning that there are worse things in life than essentially…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 09 Mar 2014

Sam Rockwell proves to be one of the funniest actors in the business…

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