metacritic.com: Weekend, The

Starring David Conrad, Gary Dourdan, James Duval, Jared Harris, Gena Rowlands, and Brooke Shields

Critic Reviews

63	New York Daily News Intelligent and holds your attention, like a mystery story unraveling.
60	Mr. Showbiz It's a coffee-table movie, but what saves it are a couple of performances.Rowlands puts a spin on every line reading, Harris quietly mines regret, and Shields, assured and sexy, has never been this good.
60	Chicago Reader Rowlands and Unger deliver sensitive performances, Shields is surprisingly good.
50	TV Guide Thank God for Brooke Shields: Spitting spite with every remark she hurls at her long-suffering mother, she's a revelation.
50	New York Post You rarely see movies as dramatically uneven as The Weekend, which has a dreadful, one-star first half - followed by an interesting, three-star conclusion.
40	Variety Ken Eisner Despite some memorable high points, pic plays like "Love! Valour! Compassion!" -- without the laughs.
20	The New York Times You have to admire the effort its attractive cast expends pumping life into stilted, flowery dialogue that confuses pretentious attitudinizing with profound insight.
10	LA Weekly Shrill and gloomy.
10	Village Voice Bloodless, lip-biting psycho-carnage.