Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Carell carries the comedy, while remaining grounded in the pain of the character, and so we care. It's also astonishing what good clothes and a haircut can do for a guy. There's a lesson in that for all of us.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Pity the crowds expecting another cute comedy like "Date Night" who wind up at "Crazy, Stupid, Love." It'll be like asking for a burger and getting served escargot.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" is, on balance, remarkably sane and reasonably smart.

Name : Carrie Rickey / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
A Midsummer Night's PG-13 sex comedy.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
During a summer when most of the other romantic comedies haven't been either, "Crazy, Stupid, Love" provides a fairly smart and sensible date-night choice.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Carell is his dependable wounded-puppy self, always likable, but Gosling and Stone are fantastic.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
I laughed all the way through, thanks to both consistently clever dialogue and deft delivery from Carell and Gosling, who clearly relished a chance to flex his comic muscles.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
Requa and Ficarra encourage grand statements and enormous reactions. They want pyrotechnic feeling, and their shamelessness works. It has no pretensions of depth, just more feeling.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's romantic, touching, a little risque and screwball, yet reassuringly down-to-earth.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Sorry, dudes. It seems we can't do anything right, but we're still funny. Sometimes.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Hampered by contrivances and the awkward melding of romantic comedy and family drama, the film falters.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
The episodic plot encompasses a series of familiar gags about casual sex and finding your soul mate, few of them delivered with much enthusiasm.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : MSN Movies
The workmanship and effort are evident in every straining moment, but the end result is so completely phony as to be without value.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
This is the sort of film that Oscar generally ignores come awards season. It shouldn't. Crazy Stupid Love is a crazy smart film.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
It's a tonic for those beaten down by years of bad rom-coms. Love conquers all - and so, I suspect, will this movie. Just try to resist it.

Name : Sam Adams / Alias : Los Angeles Times
There's strong, fleetingly powerful stuff in Crazy, Stupid, Love., but like its awkwardly punctuated title, the movie jerks to a halt just when it's beginning to flow.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
It gets better and funnier after a labored and lumbering start, which is entirely the opposite of most Hollywood comedies.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
This is witless, saccharine and lifeless.

Name : Eric D. Snider / Alias : Film.com
A multi-threaded and well-organized comedy full of pleasant surprises and appealing characters.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" is a sweet romantic comedy about good-hearted people. Imagine that.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The movie squanders its potential with a sloppy script chock full of false notes. Even the bumptious score intrudes, often bumping into important dialogue.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Crazy Stupid Love veers schizophrenically between daring, jaw-dropping comedy and gooey sitcom cliches that weigh it down.

Name : Karina Longworth / Alias : Village Voice
Carell and Gosling, each willing to take his character to the point of caricature in order to find the truth in him, have a nicely barbed chemistry together.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
In a genre where outright imbecility generally prevails, a film investigating craziness and stupidity qualifies as a cut above.

Name : Kirk Honeycutt / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The movie suffers perhaps from too many characters and subplots but all the actors appear to have fun with their characters.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
For most of the way, Crazy, Stupid, Love coasts more than agreeably on the talents of four hugely charismatic actors and a tart, knowing script that tweaks the rom-com formula just enough to seem fresh.

Name : Mary F. Pols / Alias : TIME Magazine
The movie's biggest surprise is the revelation of Gosling as cunning comedian.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
This grand romantic gesture about grand romantic gestures conjures up the bittersweet magic of first loves, lasting loves, lost loves and all the loves in between.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's a pleasure to come across the sharply funny and touching Crazy Stupid Love. It's a live one with a dream cast that keeps springing playful surprises.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
It never gets crazy or stupid enough to make you truly fall in love with it.

Name : Rick Groen / Alias : Globe and Mail
[A] pleasant surprise.

Name : David Denby / Alias : New Yorker
A genial, messy comedy of marital discord and mismatched lovers.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" connects its characters in unexpected ways. But line to line, the script lacks wit and sophistication.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
None of this is much fun to watch. The pace drags. The acting is without contrast or color.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : Time Out New York
The directors show a great talent for jagged-edged farce.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The movie has an unexpectedly high proportion of delights to groaners, and it's full of actors you'll want to see.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Every moment of mature insight in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" is answered by a scene of formulaic farce.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Fills its scenes with bright surprises while making an appealing new case for the old-fashioned notion of soul mates.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This is not the ultimate romantic comedy - the one that makes you fall as hard for the characters as they do for one another while savoring their every interaction - but it seems fresher and less recycled than much of the product out there.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Adult dramas and comedies should at least have a toe in their audience's lives.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Old-fashioned as that might sound, there's a fresh, insightful feel to this multigenerational love story.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Crazy, Stupid, Love is the perfect combination of sexy, cute, wise, hilarious, and true.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Even if Money Monster ultimately gets held hostage by its plot intricacies, Clooney, Roberts, O'Connell, and Foster do their jobs. It's a movie worth investing in.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
The film hangs together surprisingly well, thanks to on-point performances from George Clooney and Julia Roberts, a sprinkle of obtuse humor and Foster's streamlined direction .

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
Foster has crafted a piece that, in places, proves to actually be funnier than might be expected, and she gets the most out of her fellow A-listers .

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Money Monster should turn into some kind of a nail-biter, but Foster, a novice at suspenseful filmmaking, doesn't seem to know which screws to tighten or if screws even need tightening at all.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Unfolding in real time, Money Monster hints at being a more taut, topical thriller than it turns out to be. While always compulsively watchable, and often surprisingly funny, it loses some of its steam once it becomes clear where it's going.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
It recognizes the inchoate anger of people who suddenly realize they've been duped by a fast-talking hustler who promised gold but delivered dirt.

Name : Melissa Anderson / Alias : Village Voice
There's a lot of excitable talk about algorithms (or "algos"), the overuse of the term perhaps fitting for a film that seems to have been constructed not by humans but by binary code.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Jodie Foster has directed a real-time drama that's lean, efficient and benefits from the enormous charisma of George Clooney in the starring role as a slick, smug financial pundit.

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
As a solid B-movie elevated by A-list talent and pushed along by a brisk running time-it's only 98 minutes-Money has its own rewards.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Ultimately, "Money Monster" is always watchable - but forgets to give us a compelling reason to watch.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
The film whirs along with such entertaining efficiency that you may not realize that, by the end, it has shifted its blame .

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Unfortunately, despite a surfeit of talent in front of and behind the camera, the movie is unable to overcome a shaky narrative whose increasing preposterousness ensures it's difficult to take seriously.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Money Monster" is better than a mere statement of the times. It's terrific entertainment, and it deserves to be seen now.

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
In a different year, Money Monster might just be another solidly entertaining thriller with an admirable script; in 2016, it feels like the movie of the moment.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
While it often feels like Foster's instincts as a director outpace the abilities of her screenwriting team, what she delivers is infernally attractive.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
The film could be better - and it should be better, considering the depth of the talent involved.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
Foster navigates the tonal shifts with ease, and her actors follow.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
It's well made, juicily acted, a fun watch, but for all its financial-vigilante noise, the movie's a slick Hollywood response to the depredations of Wall Street.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Foster moves her film from a pulse-quickening nail-biter to an incisive look at a beleaguered America undergoing a crisis of faith.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Not quite the sophisticated drama the era deserves, but not the usual adrenaline-addled genre exercise, either.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A potentially topical thriller marred by pandering dialogue and clumsy plotting. Spend your money elsewhere.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Sometimes very funny and occasionally legitimately tense.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Clooney provides the glue. Like director Foster, he has a genuine interest in making commercial movies that matter, at least a little bit - movies that engage with questions of media hypocrisy and financial outrages.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
'Dog Day Afternoon' for dough-brains.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
You will not necessarily learn anything here about how TV or high finance really work, but you will be invited to enjoy the illusion of such enlightenment in the skilled and charismatic company of Julia Roberts and George Clooney.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The movie itself feels a little out of date, taking place in the present, but emotionally invoking a world of Enrons, Bernie Madoffs, tech bubbles and Wall Street meltdowns.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A film that is both less entertaining and less significant than it imagines.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
As its tense studio antics unfold, though, the sad truth becomes apparent: Money Monster is a movie-star vehicle that isn't giving its movie stars anything to do.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
A clever financial thriller with comic overtones that's a solid investment of your time thanks to stellar work by George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Investing in this movie would not be a safe bet.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
A polemic disguised as a thriller .

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
Money Monster might not be a great movie, but it is a comforting movie-movie that's still fun to watch even if it whiffed on being something more.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
An ordinary film about an extraordinary situation.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
If Bernie Sanders is elected president, Money Monster will be the only movie allowed on Air Force One.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
Plays it straight with a topic that in reality is far more twisted.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
One long series of narrative gotchas masquerading as moral or intellectual sophistication before finally revealing that it offers nothing more than world-weary sentimentality.