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Marta Barber, Miami Herald: This is an affair to forget. Read more

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Attal knows that no matter how adult we feel when we say, 'I do,' marriage is all child's play: jealousy, lies and pure, unconditional love. Perplexing, but not a bad option. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Whether any of them will live happily ever after is a question you're left pondering long after this challenging film comes to a close. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Happily Ever After is never as insightful or as funny as Woody at his best. But the film has a fine-tuned approach to human behavior. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A tremendously provocative date movie for couples brave enough to face each other afterward. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Like the story, the camerawork in Happily Ever After is loose, fluid and intent on discovery; it lets characters' moments together and alone unfurl easily and casually in a way that Hollywood seems to want to avoid like failure. Read more

Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News: If this is director Attal's attempt to dive into the complex world of marriages, he barely swam past the shoreline. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: This look at the assorted struggles of modern hetero coupledom gives off a distinctly moldy aroma. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: The repetitiveness is eased only in those sequences when Johnny Depp, Anouk Aimee and Claude Berri make cameo appearances. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: None of these men, unfortunately, is a very compelling character. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: This is terrific filmmaking. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Anyone who watches Yvan Attal's breezy, skin-deep sex comedy can identify with the grass-is-always-greener daydreams that haunt its characters. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: If you ever get a chance to see Happily Ever After at any venue and in any form, drop everything and see it. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There's nothing much wrong with the film; my complaint is that there's nothing much right about it. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The picture is neither comedy nor drama but an irridescent blending of the two, like the complex sky of a Turner painting. Read more

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Lisa Nesselson, Variety: There's very little wit, charm or even energy on display. Read more

David Ng, Village Voice: If there is any doubt as to whether French cinema is in a state of free fall, Yvan Attal's Happily Ever After should put such uncertainties to rest. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's French. It's sexy. It's got a killer soundtrack. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: A meditation on the joys and frustrations of monogamy that manages to be a diverting and funny character study at least most of the time. Read more