Friends With Kids: Press reviews

'...could not be more fertile...'

'another rom-com with brains.'

'funny and likable'

'It benefits from a supernaturally engaging cast, but this treads too closely to the rom-com model to feel as smart or moving as Westfeldt's previous best.'

'By the end, though, it has taken a sentimental turn that makes it look as if it hasn't got the courage of its right-on convictions.'

'a talky, predictable, less-audacious-than-it-thinks romantic comedy'

'Friends with Kids takes a real subject – wanting children before it's too late, not being in a suitable relationship – and has half an adult stab at it, until it takes the one turn you're hoping it won't'

'Jennifer Westfeldt makes little use of her cast of Bridesmaids and Mad Men, but this unusual romance is explored perceptively'

'Unfortunately despite being very funny, it ends up feeling quite, ahem, laboured and somehow lacks the raucous charm of its predecessor.'

'Westfeldt shifts tone from prickly and insightful to date-movie feelgood, cruising towards a happy ending you can see from miles off. '

'Smart dialogue, a gifted ensemble and good intentions from Jennifer Westfeldt, but her grown-up romcom can't quite escape feeling like a sitcom on the big screen.'

'Alienating sitcom'

'The "super-progressive" social experiment at least has a foolhardy courage, but you know it's a matter of time before the old orthodoxies of romantic comedy kick in.'

'unwatchable'