Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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positive
12(31%)
mixed
23(59%)
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83
The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable.
80
Miller time for the funny bone.
75
Each actor is unusually watchful and wily, and their actorly competition underscores the one-upmanship of their characters.
75
It's good fun for a while, especially the therapy sessions that feature Luis Guzman as a gay hood with a paunch he covers in Day-Glo spandex and John Turturro as Dave's "anger buddy." John C. Reilly also scores as a bully turned Buddhist monk.
75
At a time when screen comedy has its own problems with anger management, Sandler's self-possessed style is as refreshing as it is funny.
75
Without insult to either film, Anger Management could be called "Punch-Drunk Love" for the masses.
70
As a comedy duo Nicholson and Sandler pose no threat to the legacy of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, in part because Sandler is so outclassed, but mostly because everyone involved is playing it safe.
63
Nicholson operates in full-bore demonic mode in Anger Management, eclipsing gentle star Adam Sandler and satisfying everybody who's been waiting for Hollywood's Wild Man to cut loose once more.
63
Essentially a one-joke movie that milks its central conceit long after there's nothing left.
63
A ragged piece of filmmaking, but the odds are you'll have as good a time watching it as Nicholson and Sandler seemed to have making it.
