Jeff, Who Lives at Home: Press reviews

'This lo-fi tale of a 30-year-old stoner's misadventures in Baton Rouge could be mumblecore's best bid for mainstream success'

'The brothers Mark and Jay Duplass have hit the bull's-eye with their troubled family comedy'

'an appealingly low-key and laidback charmer that focuses on the everyday dissatisfactions of ordinary people'

'The film has a dark symmetry and dangerous moments that prove to be as funny as its sunnier ones.'

'They want to make us believe in something, though it's also possible that they are only fooling.'

'There's undoubtedly comedy mileage in an irreverent sending up of the Signs/Magnolia school of everything-is-connected philosophy. Despite the calibre of the cast, the Duplass brothers mostly fail to find it.'

'Odd, sweet and languid, but little to get your teeth into.'

'Jeff's mock-Quixotic odyssey is confined to the anonymous Baton Rouge suburbs, while New Orleans remains symbolically somewhere out of shot.'

'watchable and often funny, but still seems encumbered with a kind of Sundance-indie self-consciousness'

'Often laugh-out-loud hilarious early on, the film eventually becomes a bit twee as it heads towards a contrived finale that could sit quite happily in a mainstream rom-com'

'sweet and occasionally moving, but just a little too safe and old-fashioned.'

'gentle, warm but a little forgettable.'

'persistent, tireless and annoying.'