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Avg. Critic Score: 60 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Garlin's movie is beautiful in its own way. It also suggests that David's show would still be brilliant without the aggravation. I'm not saying that David should renounce misanthropy. But maybe he could curb less of Garlin's apparent enthusiasm for people. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly |

    A wry movie that, packed with his well-known friends and scored intermittently to bouncy accordion music, plays like a softer episode of "Curb." Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It is a minor movie, but a big-time minor movie...If there is such a thing as a must-see three-star movie, here it is. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times |

    Laid back and affectionate, "Cheese" is the movie version of a dear friend you could spend all day with. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    The film is visually bland and hits a few comic dead ends, but there's an element of pathos that allows us to believe in the plight of the fictional James. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Garlin, like Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine in "Marty," is good company, even when his out-of-control eating and self-loathing threaten to overwhelm him. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post |

    The entire film carries a whiff of "vanity project," with several of Garlin's comedic buddies reporting for duty. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times |

    James and Beth have fun in a grocery store pretending to be different characters meeting in the aisles. As they learn, sometimes the moment works, sometimes it doesn't. The same can be said for this unfailingly modest film. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Ronnie Scheib

    Never completely takes off, yet somewhat overestimates the surrounding zaniness. Still, any opportunity to witness the improvisatory skills of Sarah Silverman, Bonnie Hunt and Amy Sedaris should not be missed. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Garlin's directing has little pacing, and many of the borderline gags could have been salvaged with some sharper editing. And there's a shocking amount of jokes and situations that just don't work. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ Offbeat indie romantic comedy for teens and up.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that although this indie romantic comedy stars the usually foul-mouthed comic Sarah Silverman and Jeff Garlin (a veteran of the caustic Curb Your Enthusiasm), it's actually a good-natured film with lots of heart that's fairly teen-friendly ... with some caveats. Silverman taps into her shtick a bit by acting like a push-the-envelope nympho who likes to discuss sex, albeit in cleaned-up terms (there's virtually no language stronger than "crack whore" in the movie). And there are some painfully convincing moments of binge-eating on Garlin's part.
  • Families can talk about how the media tends to portray people who are overweight. Why are they so often made fun of in TV shows and movies? Do you think that tendency has changed at all in recent years? Why or why not? How do jokes based on body type make you feel? Are they different than jokes based on race or ethnicity? Why or why not? Why are "fat" jokes more accepted than racial humor? Is that OK?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Beth picks up strange men and later ridicules them. James clearly has an overeating problem and binges onscreen.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Not an issue
  • sex false3 Sex: Some cleavage shots, as well as a scene in which Sarah Silverman's character, who professes to liking sex more than relationships, tries on underwear in a dressing room and beckons to James. She also whips off her shirt once. Detailed description of a sex act called a "hoagie shack." An extended riff on a homeless man's obsessive knowledge of nude scenes in various movies.
  • language false3 Language: Fairly clean. Some use of the words "crack whore," and some scatological phrases.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Second City comedy troupe is clearly identified; a hotdog stand's logo is visible; some products identified in a corner deli.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Nothing that really raises flags (unless you're a nutritionist keeping track of sugar rushes...).
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