For Your Consideration Critic Reviews

Each and every character in Christopher Guest's latest hilarious cultural corrective is something inspiring to behold.Read the full review

The outrageously hilarious For Your Consideration was well worth the wait. Again delivered with comic precision by Guest's crack repertory company, his patented brand of parody takes affectionate but deadly aim at its awards buzz mania target and the results aren't just funny, they're face-hurting funny.Read the full review

Catherine O'Hara is comic perfection as Marilyn Hack.Read the full review

It will garner critical huzzahs from those it lampoons, which will broaden the duo's (Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy) fan base.Read the full review

Some people may be put off that For Your Consideration lands in a serious place. But I see it as evidence of an expanding vision, of continued artistic growth.Read the full review

As amusing as it is, the comedy here consists mostly of predictable potshots.Read the full review

For Your Consideration will not go down as one of Guest's crown jewels, but it's nevertheless engaging.Read the full review

The movie does have its flashes of genius. "Home for Purim," the movie, is set in the Deep South, where Yiddish is spoken with a drawl.Read the full review

Funny? Yes. Revealing? No. By and large, the movie is content to offer amusing caricatures and leave it at that.Read the full review