Movies
Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
Best / Worst of the Decade
Wide Releases
Now In Theaters
49
2012
41
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
84
Avatar![]()
69
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
53
Blind Side
53
Book of Eli, The
55
Christmas Carol, A
57
Daybreakers
43
Dear John
27
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
55
Edge of Darkness
45
Extraordinary Measures
83
Fantastic Mr. Fox![]()
42
From Paris with Love
65
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The
74
Invictus
57
It's Complicated
34
Law Abiding Citizen
33
Leap Year
33
Legion
42
Lovely Bones, The
54
Men Who Stare At Goats, The
34
Ninja Assassin
19
Old Dogs
xx
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
39
Planet 51
79
Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire
73
Princess & the Frog, The
64
Road, The
57
Sherlock Holmes
27
Spy Next Door, The
36
Tooth Fairy
44
Twilight Saga: New Moon, The
83
Up in the Air![]()
xx
Valentine's Day
25
When in Rome
71
Where the Wild Things Are
xx
WolfMan, The
63
Youth in Revolt
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
Limited Releases
Now In Theaters
46
44 Inch Chest
83
Ajami![]()
73
Amreeka
xx
Barefoot to Timbuktu
19
Bitch Slap
24
Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The
76
Broken Embraces
64
Cloud 9
65
Coco Before Chanel
84
Cove, The![]()
84
Crazy Heart![]()
21
Crazy on the Outside
48
Creation
xx
Daddy Long Legs
81
Damned United, The![]()
68
Departures
62
District 13: Ultimatum
85
Education, An![]()
71
Eyes Wide Open
24
Falling Awake
81
Fish Tank![]()
56
For My Father
xx
From Mexico with Love
43
Frozen
68
Girl on the Train, The
52
Killing Kasztner
74
Last Station, The
43
Little Traitor, The
51
Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, The
73
Me and Orson Welles
76
Messenger, The
57
Missing Person, The
67
Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, The
xx
My Name is Khan
49
Nine
63
North Face
xx
October Country
67
Off and Running
52
Paranoids, The
49
Pop Star on Ice
49
Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The
xx
Promised Lands (Re-release)
69
Red Riding Trilogy, The
29
Saint John of Las Vegas
69
September Issue, The
36
Serious Moonlight
63
Shinjuku Incident, The
77
Single Man, A
xx
Still Bill
76
Terribly Happy
74
That Evening Sun
19
To Save a Life
68
Town Called Panic, A
59
Until the Light Takes Us
xx
Videocracy
65
Waiting for Armageddon
82
White Ribbon![]()
43
Women in Trouble
xx
Word is Out
64
Young Victoria, The
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
Judy Berlin

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 2 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie >
Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Eric Mendelsohn
Directed by: Eric Mendelsohn
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 25, 2000
DVD: September 4, 2001
Running Time: 93 minutes, B/W
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Barbara Barrie, Bob Dishy, Edie Falco, Aaron Harnick, Madeline Kahn, Julie Kavner, and Anne Meara
When the small suburban town of Babylon, Long Island, in engulfed in the darkness of a strange solar eclipse, two former classmates (Harnick and Falco) pass the day reminiscing. (Shooting Gallery)
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Boston Globe Jay Carr
It isn't often that lives of quiet desperation are served up with such pearly restraint.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Some movies are too good to miss. Judy Berlin is one of them...It works like magic.
USA Today Mike Clark
Tightly constructed and controlled.
Salon.com Charles Taylor
An almost perfectly realized poetic vision of people who continue in their everyday existence certain that life in a larger sense has passed them by.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
Where "American Beauty" was smug and obvious in its dissection of suburban life, Judy Berlin is hilarious, heartbreaking and -- in its graciousness -- unlike any American film we've seen in a long time.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Beautiful little film.
Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Captures the emptiness of small-time lives as evocatively as Peter Bogdonavich's "Last Picture Show."
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Philosophy imbues this inescapably self-reflexive movie with a rare compassion.
Read Full Review >Film.com Graham Fuller
Etched with sensitivity and wit, above all with an unpatronizing compassion for ordinary people going about their business on an extraordinary day.
Read Full Review >Film.com Henry Cabot Beck
Unlikely to draw the audience it deserves, but those who do see it will have a hard time shaking its gentle, ghostly echoes.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
With skill and also with love, writer-director Eric Mendelsohn creates a delicate and airy mood, a kind of cinematic haiku.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Its leisurely pace and surreal poetry won't break box-office records, but will surely serve to introduce Mendelsohn as a major new talent.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Laced with magic-realist bittersweetness.
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Broadway-sized performances.
Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Possesses moments of fleeting grace, pathos and beauty, even if it ultimately doesn't amount to much.
TV Guide Ken Fox
A gentle, offbeat drama that hails the arrival of a new talent in writer-director Eric Mendelsohn, and bids a poignant farewell to a uniquely gifted actress, the late Madeline Kahn.
Read Full Review >Newsweek Ted Gideonse
Gorgeous, mesmerizing, and stunningly well acted.
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Boasts several fine performances and some elegant, eerie black-and- white photography.
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Mendelsohn's fusion of science fiction and Chekhovian melancholy finds a fresh perspective on a familiar theme.
Read Full Review >TNT RoughCut Don Kaye
More of a moody performance piece than a film.
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Avril L. gave it a 10:
This is an extraordinary film that touched me and made me look differently at the world afterwards. It is life-affirming in its sensitivity. Eric Mendelsohn, the cast and crew are to be congratulated in working together to create such a piece.
