Overview
Genre :
Drama, ComedyRelease Date :
May 11, 2012 (Limited)Director :
Brian CranoStarring :
Jason Ritter, Rebecca Hall, Carrie Preston, Jake Sandvig, Chandler Canterbury, Todd Louiso, Gabriel Macht, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Sally Kirkland
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
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Review rate : B-
“..yet the film has an earnest quality that asserts itself more and more as it sputters along..”
“..yet the film has an earnest quality that asserts itself more and more as it sputters along..”
by Scott Tobias [AV Club]
“..worse still, the film is not true to its own convictions..”
by Rex Reed [New York Observer]
“..the shift between quirky comedy and emotionally scarred drama doesn't really work out, but A Bag of Hammers remains fairly light..”
by Alison Willmore [Movieline]
“..the real scam was the filmmakers tricking Rebecca Hall (and a cameoing Amanda Seyfried) into participating in this blunt instrument of an indie..”
by Nick Schager [Time Out New York]
“..the portraits of beleaguered lower-income people by Ms. Hall and especially Ms. Preston lend the movie its only dramatic traction..”
by Andy Webster [New York Times]
“..the performances, ranging from improvisational to seriously disciplined and coupled with the overall pleasing characters, make this film very easy to watch..”
by Maryann Koopman Kelly [Paste Magazine]
“..the deadpan visual style is straight out of the indie playbook..”
by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News]
“..isn’t out to change the world. But it does capture the sense of what happens when our world does change, in ways that bigger..”
by Marshall Fine [Hollywood & Fine]
“..doesn't take terribly seriously..”
by Lou Lumenick [New York Post]
“..co-written by Sandvig, Hammers seems unaware of the dubiousness of its flippant-young-felons-gone-good conceit; despite taking a sharp turn into maudlin..”
by Michelle Orange [Village Voice]
