| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Running on empty." more... |
D+ |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...reasonably faithful, occasionally affecting..." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper |
"...relentlessly irritating..." more... |
D |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"Adapter-director Ryan Murphy...is after a complicated blend of comic tones, but the results are softer than pudding." more... |
D |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...quite a feat of dullness..." more... |
C |
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck |
"Too outlandish to be fully convincing, this adaptation of the best-selling memoir sacrifices subtlety for broad laughs." more... |
C |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"Less than ideally focused but with terrific performances..." more... |
B |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"...a showcase of high-quality acting (especially from Annette Bening) without much in the way of dramatic coherence or emotional power." more... |
C |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...despite actors who give their all, it lies there waiting for an animating force that never comes." more... |
B- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...a wildly erratic, often annoying but never boring endeavor..." more... |
C+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"In the end, there's also something distinctly distasteful about a movie in which the central figure casts himself as noble martyr while character-assassinating his parents." more... |
C- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...an inconsistent tragicomedy..." more... |
C |
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