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61
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Royal Tenenbaums, The
Touchstone Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for some language, sexuality/nudity and drug content
Starring
Gene Hackman,
Anjelica Huston,
Ben Stiller,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Luke Wilson,
Owen Wilson,
Danny Glover,
and
Bill Murray
The story of the Tenenbaum family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Wes Anderson
Owen Wilson
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Wes Anderson
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 9, 2002
Video: July 9, 2002
Theatrical: December 14, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Gene Hackman received a Golden Globe for his lead performance.

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...
100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
You'll laugh, you'll cry -- the year's best movie.

90
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
May not be the movie of the year, but it is a seasonal gift to us all. Sweet and funny, doggedly oddball if bordering precious.

90
Film Threat
Ron Wells
A very funny and painfully relevant two hours of entertainment.

90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Anderson offers no phony uplift for the Tenenbaums or for audiences. But he does know how to take a sad song and make it better. In these troubled times, that's a gift.

90
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
In a film that verges on greatness, it is a sign of terrific faith, as well as of Anderson's promise as a director, that when one of the characters in The Royal Tenenbaums wears hospital pajamas after a detour into grief, the words over his heart read "recovery area."

89
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A big generational saga that woos the audience with its humor, spirit, style, and ability. Genius here is an evolutionary thing.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Exists on a knife edge between comedy and sadness. There are big laughs, and then quiet moments when we're touched.

88
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
More flat-out funny than "Rushmore," but in neither film is the humor joke-based. What you're laughing at is the behavior of characters who are so fixed in their idiosyncratic worldviews that they can't help but careen into each other like out-of-control bumper cars.

88
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Once you're among them, the Tenenbaums -- and Anderson -- cast quite a spell.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A devastatingly funny portrait of a wildly dysfunctional clan, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums is a movie about how people never really mature in ways that matter.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The performances are all terrific, but Gene Hackman is close to a career best as the family patriarch Royal, the most useless man you can't help loving.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Underachieves in its own way by trapping an expansive, probing story in a brittle, highly artificial style that constricts character and emotional development.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's a B+, not an A. This would be enough for most filmmakers. But Anderson must contend with a higher standard. It's his fault for being original.

80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
This is not a movie that wraps up its story in a tidy bow, but it's a lot more fun than most of the ones that do.

80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Far and away the funniest comedy in town.

80
Slate
David Edelstein
Hackman gives the con-man lines a simple, straight-ahead urgency that makes the man first hilarious and then, as the pleasures of human company are withdrawn and his resentment begins to bubble up, inexplicably touching. This is a great performance.

80
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Spend an eveing with some of Edward Gorey's writings and drawings, rub against the velvet of his lugubrious wit, and you will be ready for Royal and the clan. [17 Dec 2001, p. 97]
80
Time
Richard Schickel
For Hackman embodies the energy and outrage the rest of this rather twee family lacks. Royal stirs them all to life, and this great, bumptious performance by an actor gleefully rediscovering his funny bone stirs us to appreciative life too.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Anderson's cinematic style gets more adventurous from one movie to the next, and he begins this story with bursts of originality that leave his respected "Rushmore" far behind.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Might have been about the rise and fall of a family of gifted children. That would have been the typical way to approach the story.
Instead, it's something rare -- a movie about people who have already fallen, whose best days are behind them.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It makes for chuckling entertainment and it's fun to watch as it's happening. But its New York characters are not a bit believable, there's no real bite to the humor, and the film never adds up to be more than the sum of its parts.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Isn't nearly the landmark comedy it thinks it is, but its quirkiness should appeal to the highbrow funny bone in all of us.
70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
At once endearing and unbearably show-offy, it seems to be the product of a sensibility formed by age-inappropriate reading.

70
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
One expects more from writer-director Wes Anderson (and his co-scribbler, Owen Wilson) than such frivolous fun that bears no lingering effect.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Over the course of 108 minutes, The Royal Tenenbaums drops downward on the humor scale from hilarious to funny to quirky to pretentiously bizarre to chaotic.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The film grows on you, but more substance and less calculated quirks would have been a royal treat.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There are laughs in it. But mostly you sit around waiting for it to be funnier, or at least funny more often. The problem is that it hasn't figured out a way to be funny while satisfyingly accommodating the pain in these characters.
60
Newsweek
David Ansen
In the antic, melancholy comedy The Royal Tenenbaums, the singular Wes Anderson (Rushmore) abandons his native Texas for a storybook vision of New York.
60
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Anderson is something of a prodigy himself, and he's riddled with talent, but he hasn't figured out how to be askew and heartfelt at the same time. When he does, he'll probably make the movie The Royal Tenenbaums was meant to be, and it'll be a sight to see.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Precociously glib and never less than engaging.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Absurdist, but also condescending and self-infatuated; The Royal Tenenbaums is at least three times too clever for its own good.
50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Director Wes Anderson, who also co-wrote the "Royal" script with actor Owen Wilson, unquestionably has one of America's most distinctive filmmaking sensibilities, but that is part of the problem. As my mother used to say, too good is no good.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Anderson's other hallmarks here are brilliant gags that deflate in the execution, potentially interesting characters that end up so flat they feel as if they'd been cut out of paper, a plot that's all setup and no story.


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