What Just Happened Critic Reviews

Who, exactly, do Mr. Levinson and the screenwriter, Art Linson, expect to invest time and interest -- to say nothing of thought or feeling -- in this meandering, passive-aggressive comedy of Hollywood inconsequence?Read the full review

A finely observed and occasionally outright hilarious glimpse at the most treacherous inner workings of Tinseltown.Read the full review

The movie is brilliant at portraying the incredibly high stakes of the seemingly inconsequential and the tremendous amounts of money spent on it.Read the full review

"Tropic Thunder" did a better and more comical job of mocking the absurdities of the film business. Only sporadically funny, What Just Happened? has little to add to the canon of Hollywood-focused satires.Read the full review

This isn't a bad movie; it simply makes the mistake of believing that it has a wider appeal than is actually the case.Read the full review

The question is: What has Levinson and Linson brought to this re-make that is exciting, new and different? Not much.Read the full review

Makes Hollywood looks like a very expensive, lethal version of high school, but lots of fun from a safe distance.Read the full review

Deviates greatly from Linson's winning little book in its particulars, but retains its sustained melancholy mood of low-key existential dread and dyspeptic wit.Read the full review

Rambles a bit, but it has dryly obscene, laugh-out-loud lines, and its portrait of Hollywood as a giant anxiety attack is fused by De Niro.Read the full review