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Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An intricate ensemble comedy about sex, lies and reproduction, has some messy spots, but overall it's a warm, quirky story about people who seem spiky and real. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Extremely pleasurable and well worth seeing. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Writer/director Don Roos has fashioned a funny though sometimes bleak and cynical black comedy, with multiple storylines that sometimes connect in jarring fashion. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Lithe, clever, thoughtful, well-acted and certainly entertaining. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Intriguing but overlong and indulgent, the work of a writer too in love with his characters. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: As tidily and 'happily' as this movie winds up, it seems like a draft for a project Roos is still working out. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Heartfelt but dark comedy. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Trouble is, every character in Roos' universe plays at having problems in a homo-hetero-Angeleno world but lacks substance, each little more than a composite of quirks and one-liners. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Mr. Roos obviously enjoys directing actors and knows how to relate to them. But Happy Endings suggests he needs a stronger touch when it comes to his own self-indulgence as writer and director. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: A warm and vital homage to urban cluelessness. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: There is intermittent charm in the execution and, especially, in the performances. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's something compelling about Happy Endings and something unexpectedly sweet. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Roos' stories eventually overlap in a tangle of pat fairy-tale endings, after which he treats his characters to the sort of wrap party given to the casts of a beloved TV series that has just finished its last episode. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: As bawdy, self-conscious, jaded and still sweetly optimistic as its double-entendre of a title suggests. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The writer and director Don Roos's slyly subversive ensemble piece is a drama disguised as a wisp of a comedy. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Serves as a relaunching pad for the magical talents of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jude. Read more
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film isn't engaging enough to hold the average viewer's attention for its full two-plus hour running length. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Happy Endings maintains a certain level of intrigue, and occasionally bursts into life. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Happy Endings is the kind of self-conscious puzzle picture in which characters behave in ways that serve the plot but in no way resemble things that actual human beings would be likely to do. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Disjointed indie comic drama. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: [It] feels like Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia for adolescents. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Roos's movie is so aggressively pleased with itself it leaves you feeling it doesn't even need an audience. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Happy Endings, its interwoven stories exploring the consequences of sex and the ramifications of procreation, is mildly thought-provoking without using heavy-handed commentary. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: The narrative sprawls without achieving depth and carries the additional burden of featuring only two or three interesting characters out of 10 candidates. Read more
Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice: Roos forecasts and explains every development with a title card, a device not unlike having someone yammering in your ear throughout the entire feature run time. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Complicated? Yes. Potentially heavy? Sure. But it's also highly engrossing and, in a dark way, ultimately rather sweet. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: What's so splendid about Happy Endings is the very fact that it fits into no genre whatsoever and at no time while watching it can you say, oh, probably this is going to happen. Read more