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Judy Berlin

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 2 votes
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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)
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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.
