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The Family Stone (2005)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "Fun cast, but short of the sleigh ride you'd wish." more... C+ Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...comes with a liberal dose of laughs." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Diane Keaton and Craig T. Nelson create touching characters in the middle of comic chaos." more... B   Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt "The Family Stone aims to please, and lands precisely on so-so." more... C   E! Online "...despite its flaws, there is plenty to like, just like any family." more... B- Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "What's striking...about...The Family Stone is the rather chic urbanity with which writer-director Thomas Bezucha serves up the old genre standby." more... B   filmcritic.com Matt McKillop "Its problems lie with a cast of characters who treat love cheaply and each other badly." more... C- Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden "Diane Keaton's unapologetically acerbic matriarch holds this 'Family' together." more... B- New York Post Lou Lumenick "This rollicking screwball dramedy goes mercifully light on the sugar, offering some tart performances from a first-rate cast..." more... B   New York Times Manohla Dargis "Sarah Jessica Parker's nimble performance is reason alone to see this creaky fairy tale..." more... B- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Keaton, a sorceress at blending humor and heartbreak, honors the film with a grace that makes it stick in the memory." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...a feel-bad holiday film about a repellent family, with a milquetoast dad and a smug, devious harpy of a mom." more... D+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker "It's up to the genial family chemistry to provide the film's minor charms." more... C+ USA Today Mike Clark "The Family Stone is as stuffed with beguiling performances -- some of them unexpectedly good -- as its script is overstuffed." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)