The Five-Year Engagement: Press reviews

'Another solid hit from Planet Apatow — charming, funny and remarkably in tune with real life.'

'dutifully hits the marks of its genre, but it is also about the unpredictability of life and the everyday challenges of love. The sensitivity and honesty with which it addresses those matters is a pleasant surprise'

'The Five Year Engagement isn't perfect, but it's a commercial date movie with warmth, sweetness, charm and laughs'

'altogether more humble, and more truthful, in charting the pitfalls of modern coupledom'

'It's not one that you'd need to see again and again, but it does leave a very sweet taste in the mouth.'

'It's a long day's journey into relationship insight, but with fun on the way.'

'offers plenty of chuckles – although not enough to justify the middle-aged spread of its two-hour running time'

'A pleasant, if predictable, time-passer.'

'What The Five-Year Engagement lacks in belly laughs it makes up for in heart and soul, successfully exploring the genuine greys of a relationship instead of painting them black and white.'

'It is also remarkably sexist, taking the side of the man to a ridiculous extent — even blaming the leading lady when her college professor (Rhys Ifans) kisses her. To my mind, she deserved our sympathy.' Read more:

'dutifully raunchy, perilously overlong'

'this is a watchable but rather drab romcom which relies too often on Apatow-school cliché'