47
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterSink Or Swim works because of a screenplay with some genuinely funny moments and a jaunty, confident approach from Lellouche that displays his sure comic timing and faith in the performers.
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA gentle, genial dip into a pool of midlife despair.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s well-acted and broadly sympathetic, but a time-killer of a comedy that kills too much time for its own good.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe humor is sometimes strained, and Lellouche doesn't always demonstrate the lightest of touches.
- Veering between sentimental and salty, philosophical and goofy, writer/director Gilles Lellouche’s Gallic stab at a “Full Monty”-style uplifter is too waterlogged with the genre’s well-worn staples (training comedy, bite-sized humiliations) and too uninterested in story/character details (turning paunchy mopers into athletic competitors) to offer anything truly refreshing about the solution to middle-aged dejection.