Thanks for Sharing (15)

Comedy, Drama

A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon: sex addiction.

The critical consensus

This is a flawed debut for director Stuart Blumberg, but one of admirable honesty, kept afloat by some very fine performances.

(*) (*) Paul Gallagher, The List, 05/09/2013

Despite Gwynnie and her lingerie-clad lap-dancing, this sober, issue-based dramedy is preachy and a tad soapy, rather than provocative. Fine acting, though.

(*) (*) Kate Stables, Total Film, 08/09/2013

The Kids Are All Right writer Stuart Blumberg's first directorial effort is a frothy affair with typically strong turns from Ruffalo and Paltrow.

(*) (*) Anna Smith, Empire Online, 09/09/2013

Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and pop star Pink play sex addicts in therapy in this earnest, well-meaning comedy-drama. Too bad there isn’t a 12-step programme for clichés and platitudes.

(*) (*) Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 29/09/2013

The result plays like a dramatized self-help book: useful if you’re in therapy but not much fun for the rest of us.

(*) (*) (*) Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 02/10/2013

Thanks for Sharing is strangely cast and not at all sure about what tone it is trying to strike.

(*) (*) (*) (*) Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 03/10/2013

Barely makes it past first base.

(*) (*) (*) Chris Blohm, Little White Lies, 04/10/2013

Thanks but no thanks.

(*) (*) (*) (*) Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 03/10/2013

Too soft to be truthful, too fuzzy to be funny, too good-natured to be bitingly satirical.

(*) (*) (*) Mark Kermode, The Observer, 06/10/2013