The Savages
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Metascore
85 out of 100

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7.4 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 72 Ratings

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  • Starring: Laura Linney, Philip Bosco, Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Summary: The Savages is an irreverent look at family, love and mortality as seen through the lens of one of modern life’s most bewildering and challenging experiences: when adult siblings find themselves plucked from their everyday, self-centered lives to care for an estranged elderly parent. (Fox SeSearchlight)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 37
  3. Negative: 0 out of 37
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    100
    A brutal encounter with mortality told with uncommon humanity, wit and humor.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    100
    The Savages is terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated drama both compassionate and unsentimental.
  3. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    91
    This movie provides no phony catharsis or closure; it develops a vision of people growing in spurts from their most terrible mistakes.
  4. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Jamie Tipps
    80
    The interaction between Hoffman and Linney makes following their characters from their winter of hard experience to a spring of renewed hope well worth the while.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 34
  3. Negative: 5 out of 34
  1. AdamV.
    10
    One of my favorite movies..it's a comedy that actually has emotion..(which is something some of the film community lacks nowadays) ..Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman give tremendous preformences and their chemistry on the screen just works...Philip Bosco is also a breath of fresh air as their hostile father put into a retirement home...i just love this movie… Expand
  2. MichaelC.
    8
    Painful to watch at times; sobering. Wonderfully acted. A terrific story.
  3. Scraper
    7
    A dark, bleak look at dealing with an aging parent. Hoffman and Linny do their best with writing so charmless that it actually elevates them, or should I say affirms them at the head of their class in an acting world filled with "movie stars." The moments are more thought-provoking than funny. It's wintertime in Buffalo, NY and there isn't a ray of sunshine or a cookie to be eaten. The deck is seemingly so stacked that you have to laugh at the odds against our hero's tired, yet striving, souls.… Expand
  4. RobertI.
    4
    Wallows in the grunge of everyday pain without the necessary drama to elevate the action. Dirty countertops, scarred lives, and a nursing home that doesn't look as soiled as it might. Real life has more tang.… Collapse

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