The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable.Read Full Review »
Each actor is unusually watchful and wily, and their actorly competition underscores the one-upmanship of their characters.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It's good fun for a while, especially the therapy sessions that feature Luis Guzman as a gay hood with a paunch he covers in Day-Glo spandex and John Turturro as Dave's "anger buddy." John C. Reilly also scores as a bully turned Buddhist monk.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Only a smattering of the potential is realized in this tolerable disappointment, which is so unworthy of getting angry about that it will still become a knee-jerk hit.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Essentially a one-joke movie that milks its central conceit long after there's nothing left.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
It should make audiences happy. But then so did most of his earlier movies, and they were lame, gnat-brained pieces of demagogic doo-doo!Read Full Review »
The concept is inspired. The execution is lame. Anger Management, a film that might have been one of Adam Sandler's best, becomes one of Jack Nicholson's worst.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Though what he does here pretty much defines coasting, Nicholson just fooling around adds an energy to even the kind of hopelessly contrived material that lets you know that the lowest common denominator just got lower.Read Full Review »