Critic Reviews
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
A wise and beautiful film.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Brims with understanding of the complexities of relationships, the frailties of humankind and the possibilities of joy.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
At once proudly conservative, passionately idealistic and beautifully assured.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
A solid, humane, old-fashioned film in the best sense of the term.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Few movies this year have been quite so rewarding with their 11th hour epiphanies.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
The picture's deepest strength, however, is the fire Fernán-Gómez conjures from deep within himself, as if "honor" were an extinct volcano he could will into exploding, given enough anger and time.
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| 65 |
Mr. Showbiz
It's filled with far too much talk and it never justifies its length, but if you succumb to its old-fashioned Renoir style of storytelling, The Grandfather has its pleasures.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Undercut by funereal pacing and an ending that seems more than a little contrived.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Old-fashioned storytelling.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Essentially conversations, confrontations, and an extremely pat -- and very verbal -- reconciliation.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The film's constrained style keeps the drama from reaching a full boil.
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| 50 |
USA Today
The material has enough meat to enable charitable viewers to drift in and out, but the result is too arch to conjure up much affection.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Nobody ever shuts up in this schmaltzy, mannered drama.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Veers inconsistently between sit-com jokeiness and nostril-flaring melodrama.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Not only is the dialogue endless...it's like driving behind a 15 mph geezer on a one-way street.
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