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If the recurring gag about Grandma's suicide attempts doesn't have you rolling in the aisles, there's always the domineering aunt whose husband sits at the kiddie table.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
In the expanding genre of quirky comedies, first-time writer-director Michael Clancy's messy, fitfully funny Eulogy is among the quirkiest.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The cast itself is weirdly overqualified.
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That Eulogy has any laughs is largely a testament to the understated Romano -- he and Deschanel are the only ones in the cast who aren't straining to be funny.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The occasional amusing one-liner can't compensate for the broad caricatures and awkwardly structured story.
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Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Neither ditzy enough as comedy nor realistic enough as human drama to live a long life.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Character eccentricities and off-kilter group dynamics play out with a comic vengeance.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The screenplay is closer in tone to an uneasy mixture of post-"Seinfeld" bile and unfocused Altmanesque satirical misanthropy. Partly because the story's structure is so haphazard, most of the jokes land with a thud.