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Three Days of Rain
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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    75
    A "Chekhovian" movie that's closer to the master's mood than many, it's also a jazzy, rainy day film that makes serious and amusing points about life and people in the midst of its downpour.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    70
    A quiet, thoughtful film about isolation and separation.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    70
    This is familiar but atmospheric, with good performances by Peter Falk, Blythe Danner, Joey Bilow, Michael Santoro, Merle Kennedy, and former football pro Don Meredith.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    63
    Three Days of Rain is only a sketch compared to the power of Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," which continues to grow in my memory.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    A well-written and -acted drama that's also unrelentingly grim.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    60
    Meredith has woven together a half-dozen portraits of contemporary lives-on-the-edge in this quietly searing drama.
  7. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Matthew Duersten
    60
    The result is both a hypnotic mood piece -- where characters' blank existential stares are framed through rain-beaded car windows -- and a murky riff on urban Midwestern ennui (by way of the Russian steppes).
  8. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    60
    Beautifully lit, with some inventive but unobtrusive framing, and the moody jazz score unifies the multiple storylines without overwhelming them. Yet while the movie never goes slack, it never really transcends its good intentions either.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    50
    The acting and stories are uneven, but Erick Avari, as a man who wakes up to his humanitarian obligations, provides the movie's affecting center, and Peter Falk gives a harrowing performance as a hopeless drunk trying to manipulate his grown son.
  10. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    40
    As a filmmaker, Meredith has a strong, if derivative, visual sense, although his screenplay is packed with too many cliches and familiar riffs.
  11. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Darren Reidy
    30
    The real subversion is director Michael Meredith's insistence on not capturing interactions between human beings in a frame; with some forethought he could have filmed the actors individually and spliced.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    20
    Rain strives for a "Magnolia"-type tapestry of quiet desperation. But after 90 unremitting minutes of badly acted, atrociously written histrionic misery, pic leaves one praying for frogs.
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. GeorgeG.
    9
    Haunting, beautiful and top notch acting.
  2. ChristinaK.
    9
    Loved the film. Very subtle and moving.
  3. CrashP.
    10
    Beautiful film with real-life stories and a twist. "Rain rain what a pain." Hats off to a new writer/director...can't wait to see more.