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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe movie works fairly well as a pitch-dark comedy, and very well as a dead-on satire of upward mobility and its discontents.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe laughs tend to come in fits and starts, built around individual set pieces rather than being generated organically out of the storytelling.
- 40L.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonL.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonEven the relatively successful pairing of neckless maestro of anxiety Stiller with the indomitably effervescent Black gets bogged down by Steve Adams' aimless screenplay. Would the Barry Levinson who once made "Diner" please wake up and pull himself together?
- 40TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxLevinson, who has directed enough films to know better, should recognize a stinker of a script when he smells one: Instead clever laughs he serves up sloppy schtick, dead spots filled with lame ad-libbing and Walken crooning "The Happy Wanderer."
- 38Chicago TribuneMark CaroChicago TribuneMark CaroEnvy is a shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear.
- 38Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaEnvy makes a pretty entertaining three-minute trailer. If only they'd left it at that.
- 30Washington PostWashington PostWith all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanLeaves you with the dismaying sensation that Levinson, who should probably be off making his own version of ''The Player,'' has instead crafted a comedy of self-loathing, burying himself in a movie that deserves to be Vapoorized.
- 25ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's remarkably appropriate that Envy is about turds, because that's what the movie is.
- 25Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversEnvironmentalists are up in arms. "Where did the shit go?" they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay.