Original sentence: The film has received generally positive reviews from several critics
Edited sentence: "  Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News headlined his negative review by writing, "Judd Apatow's Funny People bombs like a bad stand-up routine." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film a metascore of 60% out of 100 under the "Mixed or average reviews" category, based on 33 reviews.Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one its mixed reviews, complaining of the film's two-and-a-half-hour running time: "Funny People is...an attempt by Apatow to reconcile the huge success he has become with the up-and-comer he once was.The film has received generally positive to mixed reviews from critics.The results run an increasingly exasperating 2 1/2 hours