Barney's Version Reviews



  • Barney's Version
    • Genre : Drama
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : R
    • Duration : 132 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : 30
    • Studio : Sony Pictures Classics
    • Official Site : http://www.barneysversionthemovie.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.

    • Readers Rate
      5 of 5

Movie Reviews

  • 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
    3.5 of 5 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
    3 of 4 by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
  • sour, plotless and witless comedy-drama based on the final Mordecai Richler novel
    1.5 of 4 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
    4 of 5 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
    1.5 of 4 by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]
  • gives the film the dramatic pulse it needs
    3 of 4 by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
  • far too much is missing from this film
    Review rate : B- by Tasha Robinson [A.V. Club ]
  • enabling some reflection on how the smallest act and word can change life's course
    3 of 5 by Rachel Gordon [Filmcritic.com ]
  • delivers its share of dark and distasteful humor
    by Doris Toumarkine [Film Journal International ]
  • a mensch and a pill at the same time
    Review rate : B+ by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]
  • a feisty domestic comedy about a curmudgeon with a heart, looking back over his misspent life
    3 of 4 by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail ]
  • Reviewed by Ella Taylor [Village Voice ]

Reader's Reviews

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