- MUSIC
- 08:00 PM, Apr 26
watching Giamatti use Barney to wrestle with success, failure, friendship, love and increasingly with time is exhilaratingby 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 timeby Rich Cline [Shadows on the Wall ]
the film plays more or less like a recitation of that listby A.O. Scott [NY Times ]
the film authentically presents everyday emotionsby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
sour, plotless and witless comedy-drama based on the final Mordecai Richler novelby 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-onsby Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]
looks and sounds like every other perfunctory piece of awards-season mush, right down to a score that soars, swellsby Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]
gives the film the dramatic pulse it needsby Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
far too much is missing from this filmReview rate : B- by Tasha Robinson [A.V. Club ]
enabling some reflection on how the smallest act and word can change life's courseby Rachel Gordon [Filmcritic.com ]
delivers its share of dark and distasteful humorby Doris Toumarkine [Film Journal International ]
a mensch and a pill at the same timeReview rate : B+ by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]
a feisty domestic comedy about a curmudgeon with a heart, looking back over his misspent lifeby Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail ]