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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: I'd rather watch five divorce movies like this than one more featuring Katherine Heigl getting married. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: "Celeste and Jesse Forever" is by no means a parody of romantic comedy cliches, but rather an acknowledgement of them en route to an exploration of greater emotional truths. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: ...if Celeste and Jesse Forever is a showcase for anyone -- and it is -- you'd first have to note Jones and Samberg. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: While "Celeste and Jesse" is decidedly conventional in most respects, it's pretty swell as an exploration of a relationship between a man and a woman that's no longer predicated by mutual desire. Read more
Daniel D'Addario, New York Observer: A film that starts with a breakup and moves toward, well, no resolution that's traditionally satisfying, is a film that truly understands the sublime and painful comedy of having been in love. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The more these two likable people rattled on, the more I found myself thinking about the elusive distinction between characters talking genuinely smart talk and simply chattering for the camera. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The summer's most unpredictable, low-key and clear-sighted romantic comedy. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A different kind of romantic comedy: one that starts at the end and tries to make sense of itself. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: While Celeste And Jesse marks Jones as ready to make the leap from TV to film, it also shows that she maybe shouldn't be her own screenwriter. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Yes, the characters are impossibly beautiful and hip, but beyond that, they seem real. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie feels lived in by its characters and its makers, which is more than you can say for most romantic comedies, indie or otherwise. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This romantic comedy is ambitious and thoughtful, asking us to consider what makes a really good marriage, yet it's based on a sort of narrative sleight of hand. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Underneath it is an honest concern about how to learn to treat people well and kindly after the end. Or to get to an ending, or a new beginning, in the first place. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: This is a "personal" movie in a typically impersonal genre. And it gets at the way women, newly arrived on the dating scene and all their defenses down, can be stupefied by men. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The give and take here feels completely real, and each character is likable while also flawed and vulnerable. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie keeps taking us, like its characters, by surprise. Read more
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Borrows tropes from the rom-com playbook, and has enough laughs to be mistaken for one, but ultimately doesn't want to be pigeonholed. Read more
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Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: More often than not "Celeste and Jesse Forever" delivers an affectionate and intelligent look at how even the closest couples can find that breaking up is so very hard to do. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Tries to blend chick flick staples with bro humor but never quite gets the mix right. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: It's supposed to exemplify witty, edgy, indie comedy. But "Celeste and Jesse Forever" turns out to be a formula movie ... Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Jones and McCormack have a nice feel for the day-to-day minutiae of coupledom - the inside jokes, funny voices and oddball routines that nobody else ever understands, and that hurt like hell to abandon. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, NPR: Maybe Celeste and Jesse Forever sometimes works too hard at being funny-sad. Still, it's admirable in its pursuit of an unnamable beast that's elusive and fragile: The funny sadness of the whole damn thing. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Jones co-wrote the uneven script with Will McCormack, and one can't help wishing she'd aimed higher. Acknowledging cineplex cliches isn't enough if you still wind up embracing, rather than subverting, them. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: It may have the faintest relationship to any kind of reality, but Jones' tart performance cuts through the saccharine. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: How delightfully funny Jones is. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The tone established by director Lee Toland Krieger is flippant when it needs to be, ironic when it needs to be, playful when it needs to be, and serious when it needs to be. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A good-hearted romantic comedy about a likable couple - so likable, indeed, that it swims upstream against the current of our desires. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Celeste and Jesse Forever rises above the rom-com herd with breakout star performances from Jones and Samberg and a willingness to replace cliches with painful truths. Read more
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: Both old-fashioned and modern, both funny and melancholic, the witty, heartfelt "Celeste and Jesse Forever" is populated by moments that at first appear all too familiar, then turn out to surprise you. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Jones and co-star Andy Samberg are an agreeable pair, but nothing about Celeste or Jesse would make you want to spend an evening with them, much less eternity. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: To its credit, "Celeste and Jesse Forever" wants to be more than a formulaic farce. It succeeds to the extent that the neighbors keep up with Jones. Read more
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: As director Lee Toland Krieger desperately attempts to keep this film on a comic track, his actors' script awkwardly escapes him, insisting on its indie spirit in the last act. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: It's a shame that Celeste & Jesse plummets into conventionality in its second half, because it starts out so promisingly. Read more
Tom Huddleston, Time Out: This potentially aggravating comedy remains sweet, smart and very enjoyable. Read more
Matt Singer, Time Out: A very simple romantic comedy, coasting along on its likable leads' chemistry through their bittersweet breakup. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: Celeste & Jesse Forever earns points for bucking formula, but its fusion of snark and sincerity has a calculated slickness that rings increasingly hollow. Read more
Karina Longworth, Village Voice: A notably lo-fi entry into the recent trend of romantic comedies that think acknowledging the genre's cliches is as good as subverting them. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Yet one more of a series of summer films in which attractive, ambitious young women are punished for not accepting the man-children in their lives despite their torn-teddy-bear flaws. Read more