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The Way We Get By
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Dan Zak
    88
    Not so much a slice of life as the whole pie, the highs and lows of twilight living, all found and filmed in a terminal at an airport in Maine. What a country.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Mariko McDonald
    80
    Manages to put a new spin on things while being touching, honest, and thought-provoking at the same time.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    Watching them issue hugs produces an involuntary response. You want to hug them, too.
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  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Chris Barsanti
    70
    Becomes a bracing portrait of three fascinating individuals who use this work as a means to keep living.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    70
    Unfailingly modest and profoundly humane, The Way We Get By profiles three people over 70 whose lives have been changed by a simple act of service.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    Although the trio's work as "troop greeters" is the film's ostensible subject, their renewed and somewhat tenuous sense of purpose gives the doc its bite.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    67
    Neither pro- nor anti-war; it's a somber study of perpetually unsettled lives.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    63
    Although it has affecting moments, the film can't quite decide whether it's about aging or about the effects of war on the home front.
  9. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: S. James Snyder
    60
    Though Aron Gaudet's documentary never quite captures the relieved atmosphere of these homecomings, it does acknowledge the dark side of a cheery platitude: those on both sides of the divide are in need of healing.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    50
    It's the stuff of a fine short on what any "Bowling Alone" reader knows is the last generation of civic-minded civilians, but Gaudet has a hard time extending his material to feature length.
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