The Five-Year Engagement: Critic Reviews

90%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

64%

Rotten Tomatoes: 164 reviews

Bill Gibron Filmcritic.com

60

This should have been a lot better.
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James Verniere Boston Herald

75

Jason Segel soars in Judd Apatow comedy
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Kurt Loder Reason Online

A very funny movie with a complex heart.
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Nick Schager Boxoffice Magazine

40

The post-proposal blues strike a crushingly bland couple in The Five-Year Engagement, a romantic comedy lacking in both of the genre's signature elements.
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Dave White Movies.com

50

A movie that takes as long to move itself through its motions as the last Catholic Church wedding I attended.
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Ethan Alter Television Without Pity

What saves The Five-Year Engagement from sheer tedium is the enormous likability of the large cast.
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Grae Drake Movies.com

50

It's just not quite funny enough to justify its length. Something is just off.
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Gary Wolcott Tri-City Herald

20

A movie about a five-year engagement should not seem like you were in the theater the entire five years.
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Connie Ogle Miami Herald

75

It makes you laugh and eagerly wish for a happy ending without any preachy soul-searching.
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Matthew Razak Flixist.com

51

The Five-Year Engagement is content with being funny, a little charming, and, in the end, shallow enough to be approachable.
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Rich Heldenfels Akron Beacon Journal

75

Often funny, good in dramatic moments, but lacking consistently tight control of pace and scenes.
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Daniel M. Kimmel New England Movies Weekly

50

There's a wonderful 90-minute romantic comedy here, but because Judd Apatow is one of the producers, it lumbers along for 124 minutes.
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Rafer Guzman Newsday

50

"The Five-Year Engagement" becomes two things: an accurate reflection of a new generation of postponement-prone 30-somethings, and a rather uninteresting story.
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Willie Waffle WaffleMovies.com

25

A series of funny scenes and funny lines, but it doesn't all add up to a good, funny, solid, romantic movie.
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Chris Barsanti PopMatters

10

...suffers from the smug belief that a couple of affable stars can compensate for a lazy lack of purpose.
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Sarah Sluis Film Journal International

60

A notch above the standard romantic comedy, The Five-Year Engagement gets points for its realistic premise and regular, if mild, laughs.
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Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor

67

What keeps the film from seeming shrill is that Tom and Violet, despite everything, genuinely love each other, and their careers dilemma is not played for easy laughs.
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Clint O'Connor Cleveland Plain Dealer

59

There are some good laughs in this protracted engagement story, but the pacing is all wrong and despite the charms of Emily Blunt, the film just runs out of gas.
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Liz Braun Jam! Movies

70

The actors really carry this one on sheer force of charisma, as the movie, at over two hours long, is almost as self-indulgent as an actual wedding.
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S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media

80

Apatow-produced comedy mixes romance, adult humor.
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Jeanne Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan

It's all about the writing, and it's definitely uneven in "The Five-Year Engagement".
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David Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan

After a while, we just want Tom and Violet to get married so the movie will be over.
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Dan Lybarger KC Active

70

Not so much a movie as it is a collection of future YouTube clips.
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Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat

75

May not have the same laugh-per-minute ratio of Jason Segel's previous films - or those of producer Judd Apatow, for that matter - yet it's a very charming, insightful picture that won me over.
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