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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Film ThreatFilm ThreatIt's more about watching an ensemble cast try to one-up one another's performance than anything else – and for what it is, it works.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenCharacter eccentricities and off-kilter group dynamics play out with a comic vengeance.
- The movie is like a promising date that goes nowhere.
- 50New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsIn the expanding genre of quirky comedies, first-time writer-director Michael Clancy's messy, fitfully funny Eulogy is among the quirkiest.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenNeither ditzy enough as comedy nor realistic enough as human drama to live a long life.
- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe occasional amusing one-liner can't compensate for the broad caricatures and awkwardly structured story.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickThat Eulogy has any laughs is largely a testament to the understated Romano -- he and Deschanel are the only ones in the cast who aren't straining to be funny.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe screenplay is closer in tone to an uneasy mixture of post-"Seinfeld" bile and unfocused Altmanesque satirical misanthropy. Partly because the story's structure is so haphazard, most of the jokes land with a thud.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceIf the recurring gag about Grandma's suicide attempts doesn't have you rolling in the aisles, there's always the domineering aunt whose husband sits at the kiddie table.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe cast itself is weirdly overqualified.