Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Jul 5, 2026 2.5/4

The comedy isn’t as pointed as desired and the drama isn’t as maudlin as expected, yielding decidedly mixed results.

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Jun 23, 2026 2/5

Click has a strong emotional idea at its core, but the execution doesn’t consistently support it.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 5, 2020 3.0/4.0

Despite all its inherent flaws and challenges, what can I say? It clicks.

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Carey-Ann Pawsey Orca Sound Jul 13, 2020 3/5

The film has its moments where it attempts to teach us about priorities and what should be important in our lives.

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Mark Jackson Epoch Times May 17, 2020 3/5

A remote-control gizmo allows Adam Sandler to skip all of life's bad stuff and blows the whistle on current culture's instant-gratification laziness. It'll teach your kids to learn to take the bad with the good.

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) Apr 29, 2020 2/5

A catchy little idea for a comedy catches a bad attack of the sads at the halfway mark, where the filmmakers mistakenly think it's time for some drama and a few lessons about the human condition.

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Namrata Joshi Outlook Jan 17, 2019

The concept never really takes off on screen. Moreover, the only way such presumably uplifting cinema can work is if one feels in some ways for the characters and situations.

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David Ansen Newsweek Mar 14, 2018

As a moral fable Click holds no surprises; as a Sandler comedy, it's unusually dark, occasionally touching and pretty funny.

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Joshua Starnes ComingSoon.net Mar 18, 2011 7/10

Click brings up some very real problems about adult life but it answers them with Hollywood platitudes ... granted, it's about having fun not trying to find solutions to the problems of modern existence, but it still seems a bit disingenuous.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 30, 2009

A fascinating film with an unresolved comedy/tragedy axis

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Apr 23, 2009 C-

"Click" is a one-trick-pony of a comedy.

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Brian Marder Hollywood.com Nov 20, 2008 3/5

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 2/5

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Anna Smith Film4 May 30, 2008 2.5/5

As a broad family comedy this is perfectly acceptable, but from a sci-fi point of view it's a very pale imitation of the time travel classics it seeks to ape.

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Jennie Kermode Eye for Film Dec 7, 2007 3.5/5

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Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound Jul 14, 2007 2/4

For all its competing aspirations, the movie just never clicks.

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Kam Williams DallasBlack.com Apr 9, 2007 1/4

Back to the Future? Back to the drawing board!

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Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Feb 15, 2007 C

A movie with a lot of wasted potential. It looks like it was made by a bunch of schmucks.

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Michael A. Smith Nolan's Pop Culture Review Dec 13, 2006 3/4

It's kind of a reverse "It's A Wonderful Life" as Mike see's what happens to those around him when he pushes a button.

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James O'Ehley SA Movie & DVD Magazine Nov 24, 2006

What is surprising about Adam Sandler's latest comedy is that it still works despite its uneven tone and - while it is never laugh-out hilarious - makes nonetheless for passable entertainment . . .

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