A hilarious and intelligent comedy ... Perhaps the best part of the picture is that part that isn't there. The film never pulls its punches.
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03/15/06
Thank You For Smoking (2006)
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Reviews Counted:174
Fresh:149
Rotten:25
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Delightfully unscrupulous characters and searing cynicism prick all sides of the anti-smoking issue with hilarity and intelligence.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $24,627,629
Synopsis: Jason Reitman has learned well. The son of director-producer Ivan Reitman (STRIPES, GHOSTBUSTERS) makes a strong impact with his debut feature film, the hysterical THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. Based on... [More]
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody
Director: Jason Reitman
Reviews for Thank You For Smoking
Thank You For Smoking has an unrelenting energy that never pauses for moral tongue-clucking.
03/15/06
The film works, sometimes brilliantly, at seriously exposing the flaws and hypocrisy within American government and business.
03/15/06
A satiric masterwork, not simply because of its subject matter but because of the brilliantly witty, fast-moving dialogue and spot-on performances.
03/14/06
It's an under-flogged axiom of American business -- if only Jason Reitman's movie had more muscle in its whip arm.
03/14/06
Despite its many strengths, Thank You for Smoking hovers around mediocrity, and its lasting impression is like a puff of smoke that is dissipated by a strong gust of wind.
03/14/06
Tediously subscribes to a cover-your-*** school of social comedy in which everyone and everything prove fair game for ridicule.
03/13/06
Ethics never get in the way of the jokes. Both sides of the political fence will feel royally skewered.
03/09/06
Though a bit shallow and only sporadically really sharp, this well-acted and stylishly looking social satire is fast-moving and entertaining enough to overcome its weaknesses.
03/09/06
A straight-faced dark satire.... Confident, razor-sharp comedy.
03/04/06
Reitman spares no one in this enjoyably cynical, merciless comedy, which is often so funny, you don't have time to notice how utterly bleak it is, too.
03/03/06
Reitman is at his best when observing the state of debate in modern politics. He also gives the film a peppy, professional sheen. But he still has a lot to learn about storytelling.
02/28/06
Witty, skilled writing/directing feature debut by Jason Reitman.
02/16/06
A comedy likely to delight both mainstream and art-house audiences.
10/15/05
...a pleasant enough way to kill 92 minutes (although one has to imagine that Buckley's book packed more of a punch than this).
09/26/05
You don't expect this kind of thing from a comedy, unless it was made by the Coen brothers.
09/24/05
An entertaining satire on contemporary morality that skewers corporate spin culture, political correctness and that most rhetorical of concepts in Bush's America, personal freedom.
09/13/05
Top CriticThe movie is amusing and clever but only skin deep.
09/12/05
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