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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for MSN Movies (470) on 19 Dec 2012

This Is 40' isn't without flaws, it moves along nicely, and while it doesn't boast…

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By Jeffrey Lyles (696) for Lyles' Movie Files (591) on 19 Dec 2012

It's great whenever Rudd and Mann are together and when they're not, things get dicey…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 19 Dec 2012

The Judd Apatow comedy formula might be wearing a little thin, but he still delivers more laughs than most of his competition…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 19 Dec 2012

Like most of Apatow's movies, it's a half-hour too long and filled with too many side characters. Also like most of his movies, it's often very funny…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Dec 2012

an irate rant masquerading as a cute family project…

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By Matthew Razak (302) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 19 Dec 2012

If the goal of Apatow was to make a film that in itself was a metaphor for a 40-year-old person having a failed mid-life crises than he succeeded,…

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By Greg Maki (546) for Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (546) on 19 Dec 2012

Humor that flows naturally from the characters and where they are in their lives instead of relying on punchlines and pratfalls…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 19 Dec 2012

Foul-mouthed and forced, it seems that Lifestyles of the Rich, Ribald and Rowdy has morphed into Lifestyles of the Selfish, Spoiled and Stressed…

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By Erick Weber (123) for NECN (109) on 19 Dec 2012

Teetering between tepidly humorous and totally unfunny, Judd Apatow's crazy long crudefest plays like bits and pieces of a stand-up routine…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 18 Dec 2012

That's what makes This Is 40 so potently, painfully funny, even when it's gross…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Dec 2012

Much like marriage, This Is 40 is somewhat formless, and it almost never hurries up. But life is improved by having the option…

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By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Dec 2012

Apatow indulges in his freeform tendencies to a particularly destructive degree with This is 40, resulting in a movie in which the ambitions…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 18 Dec 2012

At its worst, This Is 40 feels like being condemned to watch two hours of someone else's home movies - overly long, self-indulgent, and bone-crushingly…

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By David Medsker (361) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 18 Dec 2012

For those coming up on the big 4-0, relax: the events in this movie only happen at 40 if you've spent the previous few years making terrible,…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 18 Dec 2012

A vanity project of the most thankless order…

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By Matthew Pejkovic (770) for Matt's Movie Reviews (913) on 18 Dec 2012

An endurance test of mistrust, stress and simmering bitterness, layered by the type of crass humour that is unbecoming of Apatow's age…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 17 Dec 2012

A tedious, unpleasant experience that meanders on its way to a trite, pat conclusion…

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By David Denby (676) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 17 Dec 2012

For Apatow, one guesses, the only things that can forestall death are comedy (the movie is full of superb comics, including Albert Brooks and…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 17 Dec 2012

Apatow's film comes across as overstuffed and understructured, a collection of elements that hasn't really been assembled into a story and…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 17 Dec 2012

Judd Apatow's first stint in the director's chair since 2009's under-appreciated Funny People isn't quite the classic middle-class American…

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