Welcome to Happiness is an airy fantasy of a film, cute but also frustrating. It’s a little too determined to be eccentric.
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Village VoiceRobyn Bahr
Village VoiceRobyn Bahr
As we plod along, attempting to figure out how the sprawling ensemble players all fit together, the mystery and symbolism of what's truly behind the door grows less profound and more irritating.
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Los Angeles TimesKatie Walsh
Los Angeles TimesKatie Walsh
While its heart is in the right place, Welcome to Happiness is too fixated on its twee peccadilloes to truly succeed.
Oliver Thompson's spellbindingly awful Welcome to Happiness isn't much worse than most first features — and, in some respects, it's far more ambitious — but this star-studded mess is the rare film that confronts you with the helplessness of watching someone self-sabotage their own work.