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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 25 Mar 2010

The movie works fairly well as a pitch-dark comedy, and very well as a dead-on satire of upward mobility and its discontents…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Oct 2009

Ultimately more amusing than hilarious, and sometimes less than that…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 29 Mar 2009

Levinson, who has directed enough films to know better, should recognize a stinker of a script when he smells one: Instead clever laughs he…

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By Mark Caro (265) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 May 2008

Envy is a shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Nov 2007

Leaves you with the dismaying sensation that Levinson, who should probably be off making his own version of ''The Player,'' has instead crafted…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 01 Nov 2007

A weirdly airless disaster, a turkey so insistently DOA that the dialogue serves as its own epitaph…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 17 Jul 2007

Environmentalists are up in arms. Where did the shit go? they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Princeton Town Topics (47) on 01 May 2007

An implausible plotline, seasick cinematography, and absence of humorous moments add up to an irritating, insulting experience which explains…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 03 Nov 2006

Black somehow feels reigned in; shaved and barbered, he's lost his anarchic passion and is merely playing a comic role instead of transforming…

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By Matthewr. (8) on 27 Jun 2006

The people that rate these movies have nothing better to do! This movie is way better than all those idiotic gangsta movies…

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By Bilbo (2) on 04 Mar 2006

How can you give this movie 31 I thought the plot of this movie was quite well planed out…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Jan 2006

The film is neither fish nor fowl nor some arresting new entity, but a lumpish coagulation of conflicting impulses and unrealized gestures…

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By Sam (212) on 20 Dec 2005

Jack Black and Ben Stiller are capable of being VERY funny, and in Envy they are, but it doesn't really introdouce to the ignorant their true genius…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 Aug 2005

The laughs tend to come in fits and starts, built around individual set pieces rather than being generated organically out of the storytelling…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 02 Jan 2005

Envy is in the unenviable position of saddling two of Hollywood's most talented comic actors with a script that doesn't do them justice…

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By Joey T (282) on 29 Dec 2004

Not as bad as the movie he made with Drew Barrymore about the apartment with the crazy upstairs landlord, but I can't help but to think Ben…

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By John R (2,501) on 14 Dec 2004

[indent]So I was so pumped to see this movie. I wanted to see it in thearters but just did not have the time…

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