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- 70The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyWhile its mode of argumentation gets weaker as the standard-issue boy-meets-girl-meets-carpe-diem plot progresses, the appealing cast and brisk running time help “Jexi” not wear out its welcome.
- 63RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloRogerEbert.comMonica CastilloAlthough the title is confounding and perhaps the movie’s worst misstep, it’s Byrne’s digitized and stilted delivery that earns the biggest laughs.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanLucas and Moore write some whiplash funny lines, and since the film is just a throwaway, you can enjoy it on a trivial synthetic revenge-of-the-nerd level.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichWhat we’re left with is a benign, artless, nothing of a movie that feels cobbled together with the same app-driven, gig-economy mentality that Phil is trying to disavow. Entire characters are ordered à la carte and forgotten about as soon as they leave our sight, as “Jexi” races across its story with the listlessness of someone blankly scrolling through their social media feeds.
- 42The VergeJesse HassengerThe VergeJesse HassengerIt would be easier to buy Jexi’s more intentional absurdities if its reality wasn’t so elastic, stretching to accommodate poorly staged large-scale slapstick.
- 33The A.V. ClubThe A.V. ClubSurely, bland cultural insights can’t defeat a film whose main attraction is the promise of stupid, raunchy fun? Reader, Jexi fails even at that, as it awkwardly struggles across its slim running time to land a single one of its existentially painful, seemingly bot-generated jokes.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeNearly everything misfires here — bizarrely so, since we can see where the laughs should come, how they would work, and how a more competent movie would get from A to Z. (To be fair, some jokes do land, just not as satisfyingly as you'd hope.)
- 25Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreDevine? Still an acquired taste that defies acquisition.
- 20Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersLos Angeles TimesKimber MyersJexi is such a dumb, lazy film that it might have even the most ardent cinephile reaching for their device, ready to defend their defection to the dark side when faced with this clunker of a comedy.
- 20TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanTheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanAlthough this wasteful effort from the “Bad Moms” team is uninspired in almost every regard, it does advance cinema in a single way: writers-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have figured out how to modernize one of the most traditional and apparently still essential Hollywood tropes: the Crazy Bitch.