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56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
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  1. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    78
    Yields beguiling nectar.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    A slog to get through, but Jeanie Drynan's nuanced performance as the enduring matriarch makes it all worthwhile.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    This Australian tear-jerker finds more humor than you'd imagine possible in the story of a dying woman getting to know her adult children.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    60
    Bursting with grotesque burlesques of household relations.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    The general talent and dedication of the ensemble mitigate the script's occasional lapses into sentimentality and noisy confrontation.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    40
    The characters...are so unlikable that one longs for a bit of cheap sentiment if only to make them palatable.
  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    Honest but also derivative and crude.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    20
    Asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life.
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