Friends with Kids
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Metascore
55 out of 100

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5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 53 Ratings

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  • Summary: Friends With Kids is a comedy about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if there’s a better way. They decide to h have a kid together - and date other people. This unconventional 'experiment' leads everyone in the group to question the nature of friendship, family and, finally, true love. (Roadside Attractions)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 36
  3. Negative: 1 out of 36
  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    Mar 8, 2012
    88
    An indelibly funny and touching comedy with a real sting in its tail. The laughs leave scars.
  2. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Pete Hammond
    Mar 7, 2012
    80
    Although Westfeldt's sharp screenplay is mostly talk, it's very good talk.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Helen O'Hara
    Jun 25, 2012
    60
    It benefits from a supernaturally engaging cast, but this treads too closely to the rom-com model to feel as smart or moving as Westfeldt's previous best.
  4. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    Mar 8, 2012
    10
    It's shrill in tone, awash in unexamined narcissism - kids are just pretexts for laughs, rather than objects of love - and afflicted by explosive verbal diarrhea. There's simply no base line of normal human activity, let alone intimacy, until the anticouple finally re-examines their anticommitment credo. By then everyone has been so selfish and dislikable that our commitment to the film is lost.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 24
  3. Negative: 7 out of 24
  1. Matteo
    9
    Rarely does a movie present characters that you identify with everyone of them or have been everyone of them at some point in your life. Yet somehow you want to be none of them. That is life. Humor, truth, emotion, and the impossible dilemmas of life rarely rear their heads together in one story, but they do here. Though the directing is nowhere near Woody Allen's Hanna and Manhattan, and the climax is very hollywood, the majority of the film would make Woody very proud.… Expand
  2. ReviewCritic
    8
    A happy rom com that I believe is probably the only good movie Megan Fox has ever been in.
  3. travispipes
    6
    The cast is great, even if slightly under used at times, and the screenplay has its highs and lows. At its highs it's a smart and heartfelt comedy. At it's lows its an awkwardly crass, and predictable romance.… Expand
  4. Sausage
    2
    This movie was horrible!!question: why have all the backup actors got soooo much more personality and screen presence than the lead?...ANSWER:

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