The site's critics consensus reads, "A soft political satire that proves frustratingly less than the sum of its talented parts, Irresistible is anything but." At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 47 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Owen Gleiberman of Variety said that "Irresistible scores points yet feels behind the curve. You wish it were a bold satirical bulletin, or maybe just Stewart's pricelessly amusing version of a Christopher Guest movie. Instead, the film is a lot like a politician: It makes a big show of leading the viewer, but without rocking the boat." David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a "C" and, although praising Byrne's performance, wrote: "A Capra-esque moral comedy that unfolds with all the subtlety of sky writing and none of the same panache, Irresistible is a perverse bid for clarity that feels like it was left behind like a relic from some long-distant past." The San Francisco Chronicles G. Allen Johnson called it "perhaps the most lamebrain, ham-fisted and insulting movie of the year" and that the film is "unfunny on top of taking wide swings, which miss, at both rural Midwesterners and East Coast elites". Mark Kermode gave a fairly positive review of the film in The Guardian, comparing it to Wag the Dog and Local Hero, saying: "there's something reassuringly nostalgic about Irresistible... Stewart is back on home ground, opening with a TV show-style segment about the falsehoods of the 'spin room' ('I look forward to lying to you in the future') that we now take for granted." See also 2016 United States presidential election Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema References External links 2020 films 2020 comedy films 2020s English-language films 2020s political comedy films American political comedy films Films about elections Films directed by Jon Stewart Films postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic Films set in Washington, D.C. Films set in Wisconsin Films shot in Atlanta Focus Features films Plan B Entertainment films 2020s American films