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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatTiffany TchobanianFilm ThreatTiffany TchobanianA sweet, introspective, and touching story serves as the heart of this outrageous and twisted dark comedy.
- 65Paste MagazineOktay Ege KozakPaste MagazineOktay Ege KozakIt’s occasionally delightful, frequently funny, and good enough to make me look forward to what Greer will do next behind the camera.
- 60Arizona RepublicSamantha IncorvaiaArizona RepublicSamantha IncorvaiaThe story doesn't really have a focused plot.
- 40Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJudy Greer, the wonderful film and TV actress, makes an inauspicious directing debut with this unevenly paced, tonally awkward comedy.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperIn the case of the awkwardly titled, swing-and-a-big-miss workplace comedy A Happening of Monumental Proportions, there are numerous scenes so tone-deaf, so off-putting and fundamentally unsound in structure and dialogue, the execution of those sequences is doomed from the get-go.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeaturing appearances by a dizzying assemblage of well-known and estimable performers, A Happening of Monumental Proportions is a perfect example of a bad movie happening to good actors. The problem doesn't stem so much from Greer's helming but rather the painfully unfunny script by Gary Lundy.
- 30Film Journal InternationalFrank LoveceFilm Journal InternationalFrank LoveceIt is a tremendous disappointment to find such estimable folk meandering in an only intermittently amusing story of no clear point or theme.
- 25The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakI need to therefore believe Judy Greer selected it as her directorial debut because she thought she could somehow infuse a little satire and approach highlighting examples of masculine vulnerability — a goal that was sadly not achieved.
- 25RogerEbert.comChristy LemireRogerEbert.comChristy LemireJudy Greer assembled a monumental cast for her directing debut, A Happening of Monumental Proportions. Then she stranded her fellow actors with material that doesn’t even begin to tap into their talents.