Critic Reviews
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The director of "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums" scores his most funny-sad movie to date.
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90
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Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
An exquisitely evocative movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower.
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80
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The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Wonderfully weird and wistful adventure-comedy about a fish-out-of-water oceanographer.
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80
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
The actor's (Murray) quiet, downcast presence modulates the antic busyness that encircles him, and his performance is a triumph of comic minimalism.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As someone who has warmed up to Anderson's work only gradually, I'd call this a step back for him, but I also can't help but wonder: Will he ever take that crucial step forward and stop saying, Isn't it ironic?
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60
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Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Murray is always pleasurable company, and his barely suppressed soulfulness might've supported this dawdling big-fish story if its insistent larkiness had abated and let a little reality in, as had "Rushmore."
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60
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L.A. Weekly Ella Taylor
Somewhere buried beneath all this ballast something is being said, again, about flawed middle-aged men falling from grace and redeeming themselves. This time I'm damned if I know what that something is.
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50
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Variety Robert Koehler
The effect is often soporific.
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50
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
There's a lot to appreciate here, especially Mr. Murray's variations on the sad but hopeful soul he played in "Rushmore" (and in "Lost In Translation"). Yet meanings get lost in a clutter of cleverness.
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USA Today Mike Clark
Nothing but attitude.
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