State and Main
Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
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  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    100
    You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire. . .just to catch the zingers the audience often drowns out with laughter. Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartest comedy.
  2. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    100
    Writer/director David Mamet, who's built a career in both theater and film by being a hyper-manly sort of writer, has crafted a film that is laugh out loud funny and dinner-conversation smart.
  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    91
    Bouncing giddily from subplot to subplot and wisecrack to wisecrack, Mamet and company (and this is one of the truest ensemble works in years) satirize the slippery morals of the film racket and the surface-only decency of small town America.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    90
    A quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    90
    A bona fide populist laugh riot.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    88
    Gently hilarious comedy.
  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    88
    Hilarious sweet and sour David Mamet comedy.
  8. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    88
    A snarling satire of Hollywood single-mindedness and its lack of any moral underpinning.
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  9. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    Delectably caustic comedy.

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