In some ways, What Just Happened feels like an attempt to, if not make amends for moviemaking myopia, at least show how easily the contagion takes hold. full review

What Just Happened? is just a plain clumsy movie. full review

What Just Happened? has already happened and, to everyone but Levinson, that shouldn't be surprising. full review

The sharpest Hollywood satire since The Player. full review

You'd probably need a veteran Hollywood psychiatrist to explain Tinseltown's fascination with its own muck. full review

In What Just Happened, we get a loving tribute to the movie business filled with disdain for the ethics of the people who work in the business. full review

There are cutting laughs along the way, and Keener plays the hard-nosed studio chief with an insider's acumen, but, really, Entourage is better than this. full review

Movies about Hollywood are as common as Jolie babies, and there have been broader, funnier, meaner takes on the business than this one. But this Barry Levinson version of real-life producer Art Linson's memoir is more movie-savvy than any of them. full review

Sometimes silly, often scathingly funny, What Just Happened? finally possesses a winning mix of toughness and heart. full review

It's a bit too inside to appeal to wide audiences, though there are some funny scenes. full review

If, ultimately, What Just Happened? emerges as slightly less than the sum of its parts, those parts are very good indeed. full review

It's a tossup. Your call.

A fairly toothless Tinseltown expose. full review

Imagine if a Hollywood satire was about any other business -- would it seem interesting to anyone outside of Hollywood? full review

The movie is brilliant at portraying the incredibly high stakes of the seemingly inconsequential and the tremendous amounts of money spent on it. full review

The industry gags are pretty familiar, but De Niro carries this with the sighing, shambling-bear persona that's defined him in middle age. full review

Eventually it just stalls. full review

Hollywood is full of liars, back-stabbers, sycophants, would-be power players and rampant egomaniacs. And your point is what? full review

The title of Barry Levinson's new movie, What Just Happened, is not phrased as a question, but if it were it would demand another question in response: 'Who cares?'

If truth is stranger than fiction, it's also, quite often, a lot more boring. full review