Eulogy
Metascore
34 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 6 out of 12
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    That 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.
  2. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    30
    Feels like a quirky sitcom -- "Arrested Development" without the development.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    The 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.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    Nine very good actors are wasted, if not embarrassed, by the thoroughly unconvincing shenanigans perpetrated by first-time writer-director Michael Clancy, while a tenth -- Zooey Deschanel -- somehow manages to float ethereally above it all with her dignity intact.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Joshua Land
    20
    If 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.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    16
    The cast itself is weirdly overqualified.

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User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. ChadS.
    6
    In a movie that features a grandmother who pulls an Elliott Smith in a moving vehicle, at least the filmmaker has the common sense to cut short a family-sing-along before the clan's inevitable reconciliation totally drowns in bathos. "Eulogy" is about another dysfunctional family that deep down actually loves each other. It at least has more laughs than "The Family Stone". Lesbians are always a lot of fun. The realness of Zooey Deschanel helps offset the comic broadness that plagues an almost unrecognizable Debra Winger and her unlikely family. At least "Eulogy" has a short running time.… Full Review »
  2. TimG.
    10
    Zooey Rules! You super fun power hour girl of 2005 and beyond! oh ! Almost forgot Elf! That 2004...You rocked the house with that one too! And Famke why you no say hi to me in new york? I bumped into you three times in virgin and soho and nomoho and you ignored me like I was dirty cat in crazy alley. Gotta go.Oh, by the way These critics got stick up patootie!… Full Review »
  3. [Anonymous]
    1
    Waste of time... script idea was stolen from an intelligent indie called In Memory of My Father which is not yet released... Eulogy is a weak attempt at an idea that could have been brilliant, resulting in a bunch of talented actors not trying to come together... the coalition of the unwilling.… Full Review »
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