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Avg. Critic Score: 31 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    The laughs tend to come in fits and starts, built around individual set pieces rather than being generated organically out of the storytelling. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Envy is in the unenviable position of saddling two of Hollywood's most talented comic actors with a script that doesn't do them justice. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Black somehow feels reigned in; shaved and barbered, he's lost his anarchic passion and is merely playing a comic role instead of transforming it into a personal mission. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times |

    A woeful little comedy that runs out of steam shortly after its opening sequence. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Can't decide whether to be an eccentric black comedy or a middle-of-the-road diversion. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post |

    With 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. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Squandered in foolish horseplay and on a story that zigzags so far out of control that it feels as if the screenwriter, Steve Adams, pasted together a bunch of zany notions in a frantic search for confusion. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The film is neither fish nor fowl nor some arresting new entity, but a lumpish coagulation of conflicting impulses and unrealized gestures. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Environmentalists are up in arms. "Where did the shit go?" they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Leaves 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. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ It's a long, long time between chuckles.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has crude and macabre humor. In addition to the movie's feces-centered theme, the carcass of a dead horse and an arrow shot into a man's back are intended to be funny. A husband and wife tussle is mistakenly seen as sexual. Characters drink and one goes to a bar to get drunk as a way to respond to stress. There is brief strong language.
  • Families can talk about envy and greed. Why are they called "deadly" sins? Why was it so hard for Tim to tell Nick the truth? What did Nick's reaction tell you about him?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Lots of bathroom humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Comic violence, some macabre.
  • sex false3 Sex: Some crude sexual humor.
  • language false3 Language: Brief strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink; one goes to a bar to get drunk after being fired.

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