Death at a Funeral Reviews

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• tickles the funnybone in a couple of perfectly predictable ways

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• though modestly produced and efficiently shot, pic boasts solid production values

  by John Anderson [Variety ]

• the laughs don't stop until the movie has taken its last breath

  by Jack Mathews [NY Daily News ]

• the film dishes out only lifeless zaniness

  by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]

• the closer we get to the end credits, the faster and more furious the jokes come

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• provides an adult tonic in a season typically abandoned to the comic book cocktail

  by Sid Smith [LA Times ]

• generates enough giggles -- and a modicum of solid laughs -- to justify the effort

  by Barry Paris [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ]

• from a hilariously insipid rambling eulogy to a naked man on the roof, this funeral turns into a demented upper-class riot

  by Adam Bregman [Orlando Weekly ]

• feels more like some frantic, door-slamming stage farce than an actual movie

  by Gary Goldstein [Reel.com ]

• dwarfs everything that has come before it

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• creating seemingly heartless comedy, with a heart

  Review rate : B by Michael Sragow [Baltimore Sun ]

• an agreeable run of laughs

  by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• a mixture of comedic styles

  by David Thomas [Filmcritic.com ]

• a low-budget character-based comedy, and it feels freeing

  Review rate : B by Brian Orndorf [Filmjerk.com ]
• Reviewed by Matt Zoller Seitz [NY Times ]

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