The messy lives of young aspiring writers and the dysfunctional families that spawned them have long provided fertile if inevitably over-tilled material for many an independent filmmaker. If “Jean of ...

With an estimated production cost of $40M before P&A, Fox 2000’s Keeping Up With the Joneses may not go down as the biggest box office disaster of all-time, but the film is a disaster nonetheless with ...

The modern studio comedy increasingly feels limp, suffocated by the financial imperatives of high-concept plots and desperately in search of signs of life. Greg Mottola’s “Keeping Up With the Joneses” ...

Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot star in the film. — -- Starring Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot Rated PG-13 Two out of five stars Zach Galifianakis ...

Ah, those irritable Joneses. we always find ourselves trying to keep up with their fancy cars, their whiz-bang gadgets, their gaudy baubles. Turns out they’ve been cheating all along. Steve Jones ...

Life in the 'burbs gets another humdrum shake-up in the cul-de-sac action comedy Keeping Up With the Joneses. The rickety plot by Michael LeSieur hinges on corporate espionage, but the real crime here ...

The director Greg Mottola has seen comedy from both sides now. When he made “Superbad,” he was in the realm of the un-screw-uppable. Directing a script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, with a cast ...

'Keeping Up With the Joneses,' the latest comedy from Greg Mottola ('Adventureland,' 'Superbad'), stars Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher as a married couple who suspect their new neighbors (Jon Hamm ...

All sizzle and not much steak, “The Joneses” (as in “keeping up with … “) supposes a world in which advertising is so pervasive, your next-door neighbors could be “stealth marketers,” hawking the ...