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Avg. Critic Score: 67 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The lack of propriety and solemnity is precisely what makes this comic farce so uproariously funny. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie is part farce (unplanned entrances and exits), part slapstick (misbehavior of corpses) and part just plain wacky eccentricity. I think the ideal way to see it would be to gather your most dour and disapproving relatives and treat them to a night at the cinema. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Shows us how funny farce can be -- even with the hokiest of premises -- in the hands of the British. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    This topsy-turvy funeral produces a number of smiles, giggles, pleasant guffaws and several solid, sustained laughs. Not a bad batting average as comedies go. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times |

    There's no dearth of rude humor on screens right now, but Death at a Funeral stands apart because its characters -- mostly reserved upper-middle-class British folk who have gathered to bury a patriarch -- are determined to keep a stiff upper lip no matter what. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    With a circus parade of mourning Brits and enough appalling circumstances to set proper Englishness back to the Dark Ages, Death at a Funeral pits decorum against sex, drugs and dysfunction. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Death" builds slowly and inexorably to a comic explosion that's just too good -- too insanely, impossibly mortifying -- to spoil here. Let's just say it dwarfs everything that has come before it. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    By the end of Death at a Funeral's effortful farce about busted British propriety, you may feel that peculiar facial ache that comes from wishing to laugh with no really satisfying release. Read full review

  • 50
    Wall Street Journal |

    "Wrong" is the operative word with Death at a Funeral, which in the first very funny 30 minutes shows its hand and then, unfortunately, continues to wave that hand frantically for the next hour. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ Goofy burial digs up family secrets; not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that although this British farce is a comedy, its adult themes -- mortality, mourning, in-law stress -- probably won't appeal to kids and younger teens. Which isn't to say that the grown-up characters act much like adults. In fact, they behave at their very worst (which makes for funny setups, but hardly stellar examples for impressionable young viewers). Sibling rivalry, sexual secrets, drug use, and more are all in the mix, and there's also plenty of profanity ("f--k," "s--t," "wanker") and a couple of shots of a bare butt (in a nonsexual way).
  • Families can talk about what happens when relatives gather for rituals -- anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, or, in this case, funerals. Why do they seem to bring out the worst in people (though everyone's supposed to be on their best behavior)? Is the atmosphere at these events really that pressured? Or does mayhem like this really only happen in the movies? What are funerals really for? How are they usually depicted in movies? How is this different?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Blackmail, pill-popping, and sibling rivalry galore. An older man tries to pick up a much younger woman at his father's funeral, another waits to pounce on his ex, and four men restrain -- and nearly kill -- a guest. Some homophobic jokes and scatological humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Men brawl in the middle of a solemn event; a woman attacks a guest once she discovers the scandalous secret he's harboring.
  • sex false3 Sex: Nudity, though not of a sexual nature (a man's backside is in full view, once in closeup). No sexual encounters, though there are plenty of allusions to them. Two bodies are placed, fully clothed, in a compromising position.
  • language false5 Language: Nearly everyone swears a blue streak, including an octogenarian character. All the typical expletives are used, plus some British terms: "f--k," "s--t," "damn," "wanker," etc.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A few guests are fed hallucinogenic drugs (one forcefully, the other accidentally) posing as Valium.
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