Overview
Genre :
DramaRelease Date :
January 14, 2011 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
Richard J. LewisStarring :
Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre, Scott Speedman, Bruce Greenwood, Saul Rubinek, Jake Hoffman, Anna Hopkins, Cle Bennett, Harvey Atkin, Mark Addy, Maury Chaykin, Macha Grenon
REVIEWS RATE:
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“..watching Giamatti use Barney to wrestle with success, failure, friendship, love and increasingly with time is exhilarating..”
by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times]
“..there's no real plotline to speak of hardly seems like a problem, even if we feel the film's overlong running time..”
by Rich Cline [Shadows on the Wall]
“..the film plays more or less like a recitation of that list..”
by A.O. Scott [NY Times]
“..the film authentically presents everyday emotions..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
“..sour, plotless and witless comedy-drama based on the final Mordecai Richler novel..”
by Kyle Smith [New York Post]
“..rife with comic and tragic set pieces -- often at the same time -- and cast perfectly down to one-line walk-ons..”
by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News]
“..looks and sounds like every other perfunctory piece of awards-season mush, right down to a score that soars, swells..”
by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine]
“..gives the film the dramatic pulse it needs..”
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star]
Review rate : B-
“..far too much is missing from this film..”
“..far too much is missing from this film..”
by Tasha Robinson [A.V. Club]
“..enabling some reflection on how the smallest act and word can change life's course..”
by Rachel Gordon [Filmcritic.com]
“..delivers its share of dark and distasteful humor..”
by Doris Toumarkine [Film Journal International]
Review rate : B+
“..a mensch and a pill at the same time..”
“..a mensch and a pill at the same time..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
“..a feisty domestic comedy about a curmudgeon with a heart, looking back over his misspent life..”
by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail]
Reviewed by Ella Taylor [Village Voice]
