it is a movie that draws laughs and tears, a heart-warmer with a simple premise: family is everything; Uncle Charlie is portrayed beautifully and knowingly by Ben Affleck in his best screen performance
George Clooney tells an uneventful but intimate story; Ben Affleck, is the film's great revelation; What The Tender Bar may lack in narrative, or even emotional urgency, it at least makes up for in the warm and uncompromised feeling of coming home
as watchable as it is missable, "The Tender Bar" is a pleasantly anecdotal amble down memory lane; But the fact is: nothing much happens; This relentlessly mellow mood may make for an agreeable comfort-watch, but terrific and outstanding it isn't
a charming, albeit forgettable George Clooney effort; "The Tender Bar" never truly capitalizes on the quality of its few moments of comedic inspiration, leaning instead towards a melodrama doomed to be forever trapped in afternoon reruns
