The Intern
Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 25, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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12
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20
Negative:
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88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 24, 2015
With some genuinely insightful dialogue, a number of truly funny bits of physical business, and small scenes allowing us to get know and like a half-dozen supporting players, The Intern grows us on from scene to scene, from moment to moment. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaSep 24, 2015
There'd be a lot less strife and starvation, disease and dread, if Nancy Meyers ruled the world. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSep 24, 2015
The success of this film may ride entirely on the alchemy of these particular actors, but whatever is carrying it, The Intern gets there. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonSep 24, 2015
These days, it’s tough to find a comedy that even aspires to sophistication. The Intern entertainingly fills that slot. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennySep 24, 2015
Here’s the thing: The Intern, while having its share of silly moments, is the most genuinely enjoyable and likable movie that Meyers — a longtime writer and producer before taking up directing — has put her name to since, oh, I don’t know, 1984’s “Irreconcilable Differences.” Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenSep 24, 2015
With The Intern, Meyers has made another bright, contemporary American comedy with a lot on its mind — and works hard to make it look effortless. Read full review
70
Screen DailyJohn HazeltonSep 22, 2015
When the film gets more serious it produces some affecting moments between the two leads. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSep 23, 2015
Playing a 70-year-old seeking renewed purpose as an intern at an Internet start-up, Robert De Niro is gentle as a kitten. Is it disrespectful to want to greet this icon of American cinema with a snuggle and a tumbler of warm milk? Read full review
67
HitfixDrew McWeenySep 22, 2015
Meyers wants this to be all sort of amiable and charming and a big warm bath of a film, and it is. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattSep 22, 2015
Hathaway’s take on the underwritten Jules is refreshingly unshowy, but De Niro seems a little lost. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 25, 2015
It's not much of a movie. But raging bull Robert De Niro, suited up to play for humor and heart, proves he can be a world-class charmer. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 24, 2015
Has its bright spots but is practically blinded by its own privileged perspective of life among the landed gentry of Brooklyn. Read full review
60
EmpireLiz BeardsworthSep 28, 2015
As you'd expect, Meyers handles the material with assurance and charm, and there's fun to be had in the odd-couple dynamic at her film's heart. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 24, 2015
The Intern is idiotic, unrealistic, Boomer wish fulfillment that has no business working on any level. I quite enjoyed it. Read full review
60
Time OutCath ClarkeSep 24, 2015
The movie’s ideas run out quickly, but De Niro is easygoing, and The Intern is indulgent good fun. Just don’t go in expecting nutrition. Read full review
60
TheWrapJames RocchiSep 22, 2015
The Internship delivers what it promises, no more and no less, and faulting it for not being a rougher, tougher, smarter film about how much we all seem to live our lives through our work today would be like yelling at a spoon for not being a knife. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerSep 23, 2015
The lack of comic goals allows Meyers to write and write; a key emotional scene between De Niro and Hathaway late in the movie rambles on like a first draft, and the movie swells to the two-hour mark. Read full review
58
The PlaylistNick SchagerSep 23, 2015
In its portrait of a strong, independent woman learning to embrace her own ambition, desires, and future via the aid of an older male mentor-cum-father-figure, it colors its triumphant fantasy of female empowerment in a distinctly conservative, paternalistic shade. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 26, 2015
The Intern degenerates into a series of monologues about ambition and relationships and having it all. As the speeches pile up, our goodwill dissipates, and so does the film’s magic. Read full review
50
SlateL.V. AndersonSep 25, 2015
Nobody does visually pleasing, occasionally funny escapist entertainment about goodhearted rich people trying their best to do the right thing better than Nancy Meyers. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorSep 25, 2015
It’s only mildly entertaining, never funny enough nor smart enough to summarize the cultural moment in the manner of a "Working Girl" or "The Social Network." Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartSep 24, 2015
Nancy Meyers is known for her obsession with kitchens — sun-drenched, timelessly chic architectural marvels that provide a safe haven for all the director’s characters. The Intern puts a new spin on this trope: Robert De Niro is the kitchen. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 24, 2015
The Intern is a romantic comedy without the romance. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadaySep 24, 2015
Meyers seems content to make a nice movie about nice people doing their best to be nice to each other despite one or two not-nice things that happen along the way. That’s all very nice, but not particularly the stuff of potent or rousing entertainment. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittSep 24, 2015
For someone of De Niro’s reputation, this Intern gig is a thankless job. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianJeff BakerSep 24, 2015
A featherweight comedy in which he fetches coffee for twentysomethings and calls them "ace" and "boss" without a hint of irony. It's painful to watch for anyone who remembers the thunder De Niro used to have at his fingertips. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 24, 2015
The Intern is a movie outmoded in style and strangely retro-sexist in spirit. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisSep 24, 2015
Mr. De Niro owns the movie from the moment he opens his mouth, and is staring into the camera and right at you. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 22, 2015
There’s no edge to any character in the movie. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberSep 22, 2015
Given the vacuity of the script, it must be admitted that Hathaway achieves something of a triumph. She’s always engaging and keeps the character on a human rather than superhuman scale. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanSep 23, 2015
The bulk of The Intern is a morass of wackiness, a chain of sequences shot in a flat and predictable manner that range from tedious to idiotic. Read full review
40
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 22, 2015
It takes all the leads’ considerable combined charm to forestall the aftertaste of the pic’s smug life lessons and near-comically blinkered worldview. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 24, 2015
The Intern is bizarrely retrograde, implying that every working woman only needs a cuddly Yoda daddy to make it in the world of business. It’s soft in the heart — and soft in the head. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternSep 24, 2015
This clumsy comedy, written and directed by Nancy Meyers, turns an implausible but intriguing premise into a tale of generational collision that reflects dimly on old and young alike. Read full review
30
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekSep 22, 2015
The spongy subtext of this and every Meyers movie is "We're being serious, but we're also being FUN!" No viewer must ever be made to think too much, feel too much, or be left out. She doesn't so much tell a story as lead a team-building exercise. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineEric HendersonSep 24, 2015
Nancy Meyers is unquestionably committed to her auteurist signature of giving her female protagonists their cake and letting them eat it too. Read full review
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