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80It's difficult at first to tell whether this is a documentary or a fictional work and this makes Assisted Living all the more involving.
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80Somehow, Assisted Living jells. Maggie Riley is astoundingly convincing, and she and Bonsignore's Todd have an unforced chemistry that catches you off guard.
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80This finale turns Assisted Living from fascinating experimental film into something finer.
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75Gently filmed, quietly thoughtful, sometimes almost heartbreaking.
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75Works more often than it doesn't.
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70Greenebaum manages to portray old-age as a condition with its own peculiar beauty and considerable grace.
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70Yet for all its willful blurring of the lines between documentary and fiction, Assisted Living is the least self-conscious of movies.
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70Only 22 when he began shooting the film, Greenebaum displays a prodigious understanding of the treatment of the elderly in contemporary America.
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70May be a comedy, but its images of physical frailty are inescapably unsettling. As the camera fixates on frail, spotted trembling hands unsteadily reaching out, it is impossible not to imagine a future in which those hands could be yours.
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70A noteworthy piece on a difficult subject.
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63The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film. Perhaps in accidental tribute to Todd, the whole thing feels half-baked.
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A curious film with real heart but questionable technique. This art house fodder is just quirky and fresh enough to catch on with audiences.
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60Assisted Living's overall mix doesn't quite jell, though there are worthwhile moments.
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The occasionally contrived music-video slicky edge, and the fact that there's no way on God's green earth that what takes place in Assisted Living happens in one day, it's a noble effort.
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50Assisted Living gets a little better as it wears on, and at least it's refreshingly short.
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There's a finer line between peaceable pothead jocularity and just being a dick--and sometimes it's tough to tell whether Todd is more Jon Stewart or Tucker Carlson.
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Jarringly insensitive and amateurish debut feature.
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25Greenebaum's tedious, film-school level exercise in self-indulgence and exploitation.
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0Parts of the film play like the world's slowest and most insensitive reality show (Who Wants to Be an Octogenarian?).
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LeeD.8Really cute, won't win an Oscar, but it held my interest. It was a mix of sad, but also funny as real life is.