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  • Starring: Diane Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro
  • Summary: Seventeen years ago, fiercely independent Lee (Streep) left home ... and left behind her kindhearted sister Bessie (Keaton) to care for their father, Marvin (Cronyn). But now Lee is returning with her teenage son (DiCaprio), for a homecoming that's sure to turn the entire household upside down. (BV Entertainment)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    90
    Nonetheless, Marvin's Room is not only sharply written and well-acted, but it's also the rare sort of film that takes an honest and uncompromising look at death and dying.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Bob McCabe
    60
    Great actors do what they can in a simple and largely unaffecting story.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Eric Brace
    10
    Keaton and DiCaprio manage to bring several levels of emotion to their characters, but everyone else is a cardboard cut-out.

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  1. Andres
    10
    Wonderful. Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep were just amazing.
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