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68 out of 100

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5.4 out of 10

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  • Starring: Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand, Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack
  • Summary: Friends With Money examines the shifting relationships between four women who have been friends all of their adult lives. Now as they settle into their early middle age, their friendship is increasingly challenged by the ever-growing disparity in their individual degrees of financial comfort. It is a poignant snapshot of the way we live today, where the safe divisions that class and money have created are eroding under the unstoppable force of everyday life and the result is a painfully hilarious examination of modern life that manages to be both brutally honest and ultimately uplifting. (Sony Pictures Classics)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    91
    Holofcener possesses a genius for creating exquisitely realized characters who seem to have led full, rich, complicated lives before the film's first scene takes place, and will go on living complex, idiosyncratic existences long after they disappear from the screen. Of course, it doesn't hurt that she has four of the best actresses in Hollywood as the leads, especially Keener.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    88
    Smart, witty and alert to the buried resentments that poke through the shiny surface of affluence, Holofcener's film recognizes that money is the new sex.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    60
    While this doesn't add up to much more than 'It's good to be rich and have friends', it's entertaining, with some choice performances and the laugh-out-loud quotient of a good sketch show.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 34
  3. Negative: 9 out of 34
  1. ThomasW.
    10
    This movie is awesome!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. TracyR.
    5
    I really wanted to like it, and there were a few apt observations here and there, but nowhere near enough given the potential. [***SPOILERS***] No credible backstory (why are these women friends, where did they all come from, what is the history of these relationships?). What the heck did happen to Olivia? Why can't she teach somewhere where the kids aren't so obnoxious? In stead of filling out ANY of these questions : the movie resorts to gimmicks that are supposed to be worth a thousand words, but aren't (Keener bumping into things, McDormand and her hair, Cusack and the husband buying two toys and Aniston with the face cream). overly repeated and not as revealing as the screenwriter seems to think they are. If you're going to take on the very tough issue of class, you hae to do a little more than this. Disappointing, on the whole.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. RoyS.
    3
    A boring waste of actors' talent and viewers' time. The film is dismal and incoherent.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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