Critic Reviews
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New York Observer Rex Reed
I think everything about the movie is too subtle and real to appeal to the "Batman" demographic, but for mature audiences who have forgotten how to smile, it takes up where "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' left off.
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83
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Hope Springs dares viewers to look closely at the remarkable sight of naked adult intimacy and its discontents.
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80
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Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
An unusually intelligent cut at the relationship game.
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80
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
If you're not in that demographic, don't dismiss it. You'll miss out on a genuinely sweet, perfectly acted, remarkably brave little movie that should make audiences swoon for something they thought was gone - a smart dramedy for grown-ups.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's not much of a comedy - even Steve Carell, as the therapist, plays it straight here. But it's very effective as a cautionary tale.
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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Hope Springs knows happy endings are provisional. What this exuberant gift of a movie offers Kay and Arnold is a renewed appetite for life. And that never gets old.
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70
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The movie perseveres with affecting, sometimes startling candor, and eventually delivers on its promise by confronting the dark fears and furtive hopes of a couple no longer young.
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70
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The Hollywood Reporter
More comedic drama than midlife romantic comedy, rather literally titled Hope Springs holds few surprises but delivers plenty of warmth.
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63
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Rather than plunge into the murky marital waters of ambivalence and power struggle, the film bobs on the surface. No one would ever mistake David Frankel's dramedy of sexual healing for Ingmar Bergman's psychologically astute "Scenes From a Marriage."
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60
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Movieline
Had the movie been made with two different lead actors, I surely believe the movie would have been unwatchable.
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50
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USA Today Claudia Puig
It's about as uncomfortable as sitting through an interminable counseling session - involving two people you hardly know and don't much care about.
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