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Metascore
12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara Stewart“Gatsby” meets “Gossip Girl” in this outsider-among-the-wealthy story set, like Fitzgerald’s novel, on Long Island.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyStephan LeeEntertainment WeeklyStephan LeeThe generational conflict — overly ambitious parents and their disaffected millennial children — plays so on-the-nose it almost seems like satire, but it’s really just bad writing.
- 40The DissolveChris KlimekThe DissolveChris KlimekNothing is revealing or surprising in this horse-beating tale of spiritual poverty among the extremely wealthy. It’s uninvolving enough to make Ayn Rand herself beg for a bailout.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckUltimately feels as shallow as the lives of most of its principal characters.
- 40The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergStraining to find a correlation, even metaphorical, between teenage hedonism and economic collapse, Affluenza never coheres.
- 40Village VoiceAbby GarnettVillage VoiceAbby GarnettThe film is dragged down by its awkwardly paradoxical story, which tries too hard to care too little.
- 38RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyRogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyAffluenza thinks it is deep when it is merely trite. It illuminates nothing.
- 33The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe film is an empty shell, reducing a complex lament to a shallow portrait of wealthy hedonists behaving badly.
- 25Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneThe film is like an episode of Gossip Girl that's mistaken itself for one of the great satires by Evelyn Waugh.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe movie’s ennui feels like so much posing, and the Bret Easton Ellis-lite characters are monotone. It’s rich in effort, but it all comes to diminishing returns.