With its sharp script and bittersweet humor, the audacious premise feels fresh enough to earn a large word-of-mouth audience among moviegoers who would normally avoid a more conventional rom-com, potentially becoming a left-field breakout hit in the mode of "Juno" or "Little Miss Sunshine."
The end of the world can't come fast enough in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a disastrously dull take on the disaster-movie formula.
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Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
The casting is spectacularly wrong, and even on its own scant merits, writer-director Lorene Scafaria's screenplay has little insight into apocalyptic licentiousness, barring a tart line or two.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
By turns bizarrely affectless and then prattlingly manic, much like its dual protagonists.
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Slant MagazineAndrew Schenker
Slant MagazineAndrew Schenker
A predictable, drawn-out romantic comedy that happens to be set in the shadow of impending apocalypse.