79
Metascore
30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 95Film.comAmanda May MeynckeFilm.comAmanda May MeynckeIn a World… is pretty much a perfect movie, chock full of fun, endless laughter, realistic love and that all-important magical movie ingredient — originality.
- 91The PlaylistKatie WalshThe PlaylistKatie WalshWhile the film is hysterical, its real strength lies in the way it is able to deal with an issue like sexism in the industry and work it out in a funny, honest and very real way.
- 90VarietyJohn AndersonVarietyJohn AndersonTo call Lake Bell a magnetic, intelligent, blithely screwball leading lady in the Carole Lombard tradition might be selling her short. With In a World… , a rollicking laffer about the cutthroat voiceover biz in Los Angeles, she proves herself a comedy screenwriter to be reckoned with.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyA lively, sometimes very funny comedy.
- 80Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekBell captures the insularity of certain professional pockets of Hollywood, with all their petty rivalries and backstabbing. But she's sharpest in her exploration of what makes women desire success, and what prevents them from getting it.
- 80New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierIt’s hard to imagine the lives behind the voices that are part of the movies. But In a World ..., the debut feature from actress-turned-writer-director Lake Bell, not only gives the people who do movie voice-overs a closeup, it savvily and wittily uses what we hear as a metaphor for what we are.
- 67The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe movie actually does feature a world — the insular voiceover world — and whenever it strays, it falters.
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineLake Bell holds the thing together through sheer charisma, and in fact the foibles of the movie only start to show when she absents herself for extended stretches of time.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfWith so many ideas to work with, why does Bell infantilize her elsewhere-confident main character as yet another disheveled woman-child?
- 60The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasThe film is often a rough, searching, unfocused piece of work, but at a minimum, it affirms Bell as a talent to watch both as an actress and a writer-director, one with a strong, developing comedic sensibility.