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88After seeing Everybody's Fine, Paul McCartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid McCartney tune: warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill.
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80Here, the actor (Di Niro) dials it down and wins us over.
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75"Relief" is the word for it. It's a relief to see Robert De Niro giving an honest, effective starring performance in a project that does not stink and that, in fact, rises to a respectable level of filmmaking proficiency. How long has it been?
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75De Niro's minimalist performance has maximum emotional impact and succeeds in unifying the episodic film.
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75Now comes this American version, which turns out to be the exception, an American remake that's better than the European original.
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75At one point, Frank contemplates a wheeled suitcase and infuses in that one moment the sweetness and vulnerability of E.T. See Everybody's Fine, but one piece of advice: Phone home first.
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75The movie works because so much of what's on screen will resonate with viewers.
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70This is sentimental but dramatically solid, its placid themes fortified by De Niro.
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63All that could redeem this thoroughly foreseeable unfolding would be colorful characters and good acting. Everybody's Fine comes close, but not close enough.
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63What's finest about Everybody's Fine is to watch a good fella groping hopefully toward old age.
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60This is the kind of work a great actor does when he's not preoccupied with giving a great performance. Its very casualness is its big selling point.
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60Though a bit too artful to merit the pejorative "tearjerker" label, the film is rigorously streamlined to deliver a good emotional uppercut by the end, and purely on the strength of its craft, it connects.
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50Once it’s clear the movie won’t be deviating at all from its formula, Frank’s journey gets tedious.
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50If nothing else (and there ain't much else), Everybody's Fine does prove one thing: Even an actor with the gifts of Robert De Niro can't make bland interesting.
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50De Niro, trying his ordinary-guy best not to be mannered, gives one of his most mannered performances.
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42It’s offensive, really, this blatant pandering to emotions.
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42Follows a dispiritingly predictable arc.
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Robert De Niro's only good at playing a dad in movies starring Ben Stiller? It's all so much raging bull.
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38No trite, tear-jerking cliché goes undrooled in the script by director Kirk Jones.
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38It's a syrupy, downbeat film.
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30Everybody’s Fine – a movie about the lies grown children tell their parents – is, ironically, one of the most disingenuous movies to come out of Hollywood in a while.
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25Calculatedly soppy, seasonally phony Americanized remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 "Stanno Tutti Bene."
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20A cloyingly sentimental story that rings false in every moment.
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20Even supremely talented actors like Melissa Leo (as a confidently sexy trucker) and Brendan Sexton III (as a train-station beggar) are stifled by all the pseudo-redemptive mush.
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10The queasiness produced by this sentimental weepie builds into a wave of nausea during its interminable finale.
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