Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
Men, Women & Children attempts to achieve the tone of Reitman's early films, pirouetting between behavioral levity and dark melodrama, yet it often falls flat.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
16 Oct 2014
rotten:
In trying to be a big, important movie, "Men, Women & Children" is about none of the above.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
16 Oct 2014
fresh:
It's like a collection of shared and traded Instagram posts. Revealing the telling moments of individual lives in snapshots leaves an itch to dig deeper.
– Kristin Tillotson,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
16 Oct 2014
rotten:
"Men, Women & Children" is crowded with characters and subplots, a few of which resonate - but more often, an individual's story seems lost in the cyberflurry.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
16 Oct 2014
rotten:
As the narratives build toward their predictable conclusions, "Men, Women & Children" seems wholly unaware that these various evils existed long before Facebook and Instagram.