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Fireflies in the Garden
  • Studio: FSI
  • Release Date: Oct 14, 2011
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34 out of 100

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  • Summary: To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa will graduate from college—decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious accident interrupts the celebration, the far more nuanced reality of this Midwestern family's history and relationships come to light. (FSI) … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 5 out of 14
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Oct 13, 2011
    75
    Instead of concealing it, I'll just come out and say that I find it difficult to be enthusiastic about this well-acted and gracefully directed movie, but for reasons that might be called philosophical.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alison Willmore
    Oct 12, 2011
    58
    An ending that suggests reconciliation and forgiveness isn't just unearned, it's bewildering, given the wretched behavior we've seen; it implies that the entire story was filtered through some unidentified unreliable narrator who wanted to take the higher ground while still harboring a serious grudge.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    Oct 14, 2011
    25
    A dispiriting rehash of dysfunctional family clichés that seems to last longer than Thanksgiving Day dinner.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
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  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. NJWolfgang
    9
    If Terence Malik had been listed as the director the critics would have been all over this piece claiming it was brilliant. My complaint was the ending which signified some type of reconciliation but even with the possibility it didn't really state emphatically that everything had been fixed. The performances are all excellent. Yes it's family dysfunction at it's best but the actors pull it off quite well. Just as the critics got so much wrong this year they got this one wrong as well.… Expand
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  2. DBreez
    5
    Interesting movie, I don't like this genre. A little tangled story, i don't understand at the beginning, why he hided the glasses. but not bad movie.
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