My Worst Nightmare
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  • Summary: She lives with her son and her husband in a well-to-do apartment opposite the chic Luxembourg gardens… He lives alone with his son in the back of a van. She is the director of a prestigious contemporary art foundation… He lives off odd jobs and social security benefits. She graduated after 7er 7 years at university… He almost spent 7 years behind bars. She is on familiar terms with the Ministry of Culture and Arts… He is on familiar terms with each and every alcoholic beverage that happens to cross his path. She enjoys intellectual debates… He enjoys casual sex with large bosomed bedfellows. They are poles apart… and can’t stand the sight of one another. Besides, they should never have met, but their children are inseparable… In the end, they’ll eventually come to understand why. (Strand Releasing) … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    Oct 19, 2012
    75
    No one loves a broad comedy like the French, but Gallic touches of restraint tend to keep such light entertainment pleasing rather than blundering.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Diego Costa
    Oct 17, 2012
    75
    The hilarity of the film creeps up slowly and from every angle, not through the facile immediacy of short-lived laughter.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Dec 31, 2012
    50
    The first half of My Worst Nightmare contains some of the best comedy and the biggest laughs of the season, and the second half ... eh.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Oct 18, 2012
    30
    Its tepid satire of art world pretensions culminates with a visual dirty joke that is mildly amusing but still not worth the wait.

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