I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With 2006

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: I've no clue how the world will take to I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. For Chicago, it's a scrumptious, four-star banquet. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The cameos and local details, and even some of the gags, keep it perky. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: It's so honest about the desperation middle-aged people feel when they have no one to share their lives with, no prospects on the horizon, and nothing to eat in the fridge. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With has the same conditional deals and loosely drawn sensibility as Curb Your Enthusiasm. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: You might wish this speed-limit-safe exercise in Woody Allen-esque urban romantic neuroses had taken jazzier comic risks. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: Garlin's the first director to really exploit the menace behind Silverman's funny-hot-chick persona; if only for a scene or two, the results cut surprisingly deep. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Cheese is such a small, endearing and well-observed piece -- sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm without the excruciating bits. Read more

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: The more James groans to an unsympathetic ear, "Why would they remake Marty--it's timeless?" we wonder why Garlin didn't take his own advice Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With may be one of the wisest studies of urban loneliness since Paddy Chayefsky's Marty. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: ...painful, funny and honest, and the tone Garlin achieves is steady and true. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Extremely slight but very genial. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A slight but charming DIY feature. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It celebrates its modesty, it becomes our friend, we're surprisingly touched by it even though it doesn't rock us. If there is such a thing as a must-see three-star movie, here it is. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, 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 more

Dana Stevens, Slate: There's a genuine (and distinctly un-Larry Davidesque) sweetness to his [Jeff Garlin's] quest for love. Read more

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Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Any opportunity to witness the improvisatory skills of Sarah Silverman, Bonnie Hunt and Amy Sedaris should not be missed. Read more

John Maynard, Washington Post: Roly-poly comedian Jeff Garlin, who has made a name for himself on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, strikes out on his own with the low-key, awkwardly titled I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. Read more