Critic Reviews

• Blake Howard, 2UE That Movie Show

  The Working Dog writing group's collaboration feels so organic. This is searching, vulnerable, dramatic, comedy.

• Cameron Williams, The Popcorn Junkie

  It's a film made for the 1% who question their sweet life while sitting on a gold plated toilet.

• Tim Martain, The Mercury

  While the film does have its flaws story-wise, the killer dialogue with its uniquely Australian style of wit makes it a true joy to watch.

• Julie Rigg, MovieTime, ABC Radio National

  Any Questions for Ben? is watchable enough. But it could have been so much more.

• Peter Galvin, sbs.com.au

  It's full of the kind of fake insights and sanctimonious crap to be found in magazine self-help columns. Pity, because that's a real fun killer.

• Margaret Pomeranz, At the Movies (Australia)

  The problem with the film, apart from it being only sporadically funny, is the character of Ben himself, there's too little development and a lot of repetition. But there's a lot to enjoy here.

• Sandra Hall, Sydney Morning Herald

  The whole thing made me nostalgic for Working Dog's sharper days when they would surely have perpetrated all sorts of wickedness at Ben's expense.

• Leigh Paatsch, Herald Sun (Australia)

  I sense that others who similarly fell hard for the soulful sincerity of The Castle and The Dish will feel a little quizzical about the comparative slickness of Any Questions for Ben?

• Jenny Casablancas, FILMINK (Australia)

  The talented bunch of actors ably cut through the surface gloss, but it's tough to remain invested in the plight of the self-absorbed lead.

• Anthony Morris, The Vine

  It's a slick, lightweight feel-good film about a bunch of characters who happen to be sharing their glamorous, hard-partying lifestyle with you for a couple of hours.

• Glenn Dunks, Trespass

  It's slight and rarely laugh out loud funny-pleasant and occasionally chucklesome is an apt way to describe its loose style-but in the end I found myself smiling along to the proceedings, so I guess that's a win.

• Matt Neal, The Standard

  It's far from perfect, but it's damned funny.

• Matthew Pejkovic, Matt's Movie Reviews

  Although this third film from the Working Dog team is their weakest, Any Questions for Ben? is still a funny and insightful look into Gen X pressures in an increasingly fast paced world.

• Simon Miraudo, Quickflix

  Even though Any Questions for Ben never really produces any unique answers to make it a revelatory rom-com, it has an easy, low-stakes charm, and is buoyed by its very talented cast of performers.

• Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  At last, an Australian film that's as sophisticated and slick as its cities, yet down to earth and in touch with our sardonic sense of humour.

• Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

  The film is blessed with a sharp cast ready to tread the fine line between comedy and drama that works like glue to hold the film together

• Luke Buckmaster, Crikey

  this graceless comedy has been made by middle-aged dags trying and failing to capture the mannerisms and lifestyles of people decades their junior.

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