Rambles a bit, but it has dryly obscene, laugh-out-loud lines, and its portrait of Hollywood as a giant anxiety attack is fused by De Niro.Read Full Review »
70
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
The movie is brilliant at portraying the incredibly high stakes of the seemingly inconsequential and the tremendous amounts of money spent on it.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
A finely observed and occasionally outright hilarious glimpse at the most treacherous inner workings of Tinseltown.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Deep Hollywood inside-baseball, and for a while it cooks along with malevolent glee.Read Full Review »
63
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
This isn't a bad movie; it simply makes the mistake of believing that it has a wider appeal than is actually the case.Read Full Review »
63
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Think of it as old Hollywood's version of "Entourage," an insider's take on the greed and vanity that make Tinseltown tick.Read Full Review »
50
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
This isn't a Hollywood satire, it's a sitcom. The flywheels of the plot machine keep it churning around, but it chugs off onto the back lot and doesn't hit anybody in management.Read Full Review »
50
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
There are cutting laughs along the way, and Keener plays the hard-nosed studio chief with an insider's acumen, but, really, "Entourage" is better than this.Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Claudia Puig
"Tropic Thunder" did a better and more comical job of mocking the absurdities of the film business. Only sporadically funny, What Just Happened? has little to add to the canon of Hollywood-focused satires.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Who, exactly, do Mr. Levinson and the screenwriter, Art Linson, expect to invest time and interest -- to say nothing of thought or feeling -- in this meandering, passive-aggressive comedy of Hollywood inconsequence?Read Full Review »
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