The Best and the Brightest 2010

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: A repellent comedy that's less fun than a parasite infection... Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: A sturdy bit of subculture-tweaking silliness. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: What begins as a skewering of big-city elitism at its most absurd and nonsensical turns out to be a permanent detour down an extremely narrow tributary, as one good joke slowly gets the life squeezed out of it. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Absurd premise and weak script doom this comedy about haute-preschool angst. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Flies off its comic rails after an engaging start, never to land back on solid ground. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The Best and the Brightest is amusing at times but never more than a modest diversion, lacking the cleverness and imagination required to turn it into more than a one-joke movie. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Far too many sitcom shenanigans crop up like clockwork... Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Josh Shelov's smug and smutty farce employs an estimable cast in an only sporadically funny story... Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The Best and the Brightest should be called The Worst and the Dumbest. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: Offering a fitfully funny sitcom plot clumsily stretched to 90 minutes, then goosed with increasingly tiresome doses of smuttiness and political incorrectness, The Best and the Brightest is neither. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: [A] Manhattan-set comedy of errors that's seriously more error than comedy. Read more