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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Grief and suicide seem unlikely subjects for a comedy. But Shrink tries gamely to mine edgy humor from the darkest places. Sometimes it works. Other times, its Hollywood-centric focus feels like a re-heated cinemash of "The Wackness," "Crash" and "The Player." Read full review
Kevin Spacey brings another of his cynical, bitter characters to life -- very smart, and fresh out of hope -- but the movie doesn't give him much of anywhere to take it. Read full review
The film may be too inside-baseball, with strained sympathy and contrived emotions. Read full review
Shrink is no worse than the average Hollywood comedy. But it shows, more obviously than most, the bankruptcy of standard-issue American pop narrative, circa 2009. Read full review
You do wish Pate and writer Thomas Moffett had gone for more wit given the outlandishness of the melodrama since it would be more fun to laugh at this than take it seriously. Read full review
These characters are mostly too sketchy and their connections too contrived for Shrink to jell as an incisive ensemble piece. Read full review
The plot relies heavily on pat betrayal, forced coincidences - and the sort of closure that lands, with a thud, in a tidy package of cliches. Yet some of the humor is delicious. Read full review
It wants to be "Good Will Hunting" set in the land of "Entourage," but its bummed-out touchy-feeliness is every bit as concocted as its overly jaded showbiz corruption. Read full review
Ironically for a film revolving around psychotherapy, Shrink doesn't stand up to analysis. Read full review
This movie brings to mind much better cable TV shows like the marijuana comedy "Weeds,'" the one-on-one psychodramas of "In Treatment," and the astonishingly cinematic "Breaking Bad." Read full review