Jennifer Aniston might be campaigning hard for that Oscar, but it looks as though not everyone is impressed with her latest box office offering. Her newest film, Cake, has been getting lukewarm reviews from critics.

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According to Claudia Puig of USA Today, she urged her readers to pass up on what she calls a "half-baked" Cake.

She wrote, "Cake is a murky meal, not really knowing what it wants to be. Is it a glum tale of depression and grief or a redemptive tale of unhappy misfits who find one another?"

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She added, "While it's good to see Aniston take a darker, deeper role - a more hollow-eyed version of the unhappy woman she played in 2002's The Good Girl - the story surrounding her in Cake lacks the necessary ingredients."

Scott Mendelson of Forbes.com seems to be echoing that same sentiment while calling the film nothing more than a "small-scale character study."

He wrote, "At the risk of judging a would-be Oscar contender on its alleged merits as an Oscar contender, I will admit that Jennifer Aniston is very good in the film. But the performance is only a revelation if you happen to think Jennifer Aniston isn't a very good actress, a position I do not happen to hold."

Cake is playing in selected cities now and is opening nationwide on Jan. 23.

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