Jason Bateman makes the experience worthwhile with a humorous, even three-dimensional performance with a surprisingly dramatic undercurrent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2023

The Switch does not aspire to the romantic comedy genre, but Aniston and Bateman have nice chemistry... pleasant insignificance. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 10, 2022

Rises above its contrived conceit thanks to carefully calibrated performances and coherent use of New York locations.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2022

The dialogue is hilarious, moving swiftly with a prattling Grant-Hepburn feel, despite a completely unnecessary, nearly unrecognizable voiceover narration.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 30, 2020

It does manage to rise above the mediocrity that has defined 2010's romantic comedies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are well-paired in this awkwardly endearing rom-com with an artificial-insemination twist.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2020

Not the traditional stereotype of family but a love story of the best proportions. Switch on THE SWITCH.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2019

The Switch is packaged as a romantic comedy, but it's neither romantic nor comic. It's one of those movies that's trying to be cheerful but is secretly dour and misanthropic. It's like being stuck on a bad date with Jennifer Aniston...

Full Review | Jul 24, 2019

While Aniston gets stuck playing an undercooked neurotic cipher, Bateman knocks it out of the park with his physical clowning and easy-breezy bonding scenes with newcomer Thomas Robinson.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

This might have worked better as a television episode or a short film, but as a feature, it's merely another one of those overly-long films where the audience must wait around in silence for the same conclusion we've seen countless times.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2012

A conventional yet entertaining romantic comedy...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 3, 2012

Bateman and Aniston are fine but don't have any real chemistry together, whilst the direction is flat and rather uninteresting. It has the occasional good moment, but "The Switch" fails to push any buttons. Or, indeed, pull any switches.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 13, 2011

despite a novel plot device, The Switch is a disappointingly formulaic film and at times quite soulless.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2011

A misjudged lightness of tone and a predictable structure neuter the neuroticism and strange maliciousness of this Jennifer Aniston/Jason Bateman rom-com.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2011

Despite a strong cast and technical specs, The Switch remains another easily disposable entertainment built out of the rubble of a promising literary prospect.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2011

You have to overlook a whole lot of guff in order to enjoy the slight but pleasurable entertainment of The Switch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 31, 2011

Directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck find some heart and wit in the screenplay, and they draw a strong performance from Bateman, who’s funny and sympathetic as the lovelorn Wally.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2010

I would describe this movie first as sweet, then as funny - though the funny is definitely present, either dry and sly, or big and farcical. It's definitely a movie worth checking out.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2010

Another week, another Jennifer Aniston rom-com. This one's passable, but saddled with a problematic central plot device.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2010

Aniston still has a winning way with a comic line although it is really Bateman who carries the film, yet even his understated performance is consistently upstaged by young Robinson.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2010