5 Flights Up
Focus World | Release Date: May 8, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
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10
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMay 7, 2015
What a pleasure to see a simple, finely tuned dramedy about real adults with real emotions in a real-life situation. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickMay 7, 2015
Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton have unexpectedly great chemistry in this warm and funny comedy. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedMay 6, 2015
Better films about senior citizens displaced by a greedy housing market have been made. (Anyone for Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D, or Ira Sachs’ recent heartbreaker Love is Strange, about a homeless elderly gay couple?) But the humorous script by Charlie Peters (based on a novel by Jill Ciment), fluidly directed by Richard Loncraine, makes this an agreeable experience. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyIsabella BiedenharnMay 7, 2015
Freeman is funny as a lovable crank, but Keaton’s neurotic performance wears thin. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMay 6, 2015
If 5 Flights Up is worth seeing, it’s primarily for the pleasure of Keaton and Freeman’s company, plus maybe for some tips on buying and selling an apartment. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniMay 8, 2015
5 Flights Up is a sweet film with a few nicely turned lines, some good jokes, and some very lovely dialogue. But it's not much more than fluff and air. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerryMay 7, 2015
5 Flights Up is far from perfect, but it’s also undeniably touching. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 7, 2015
Sometimes you see a play and you can imagine it being a movie. Sometimes you see a small movie like this, and you can imagine it working better as an intimate stage play. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMay 7, 2015
5 Flights Up would be nothing without its stars, whose humanity warms up a movie that otherwise portrays New Yorkers as coldblooded, slightly crazy, hypercompetitive sharks. Read full review
60
The DissolveAndrew LapinMay 6, 2015
Director Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) and screenwriter Charlie Peters are able to carry this material to some unexpected places. It helps to have two of the most effortlessly charming actors in Hollywood as leads. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 8, 2015
The wacky New York types with their lack of an internal censor and their wild ideas for what they’d do to the apartment provide a consistent source of laughs. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughMay 7, 2015
The duo provide a bit of wit and warmth amid the contrived subplots and the self-satisfied moralism. Read full review
50
Village VoicePete Vonder HaarMay 5, 2015
What starts as a somewhat charming — if prosaic — story of love in the time of gentrification inexplicably spends most of its third act mired in the finer points of apartment hunting, like a tastefully lit HGTV show. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 5, 2015
Nixon scores the film’s one laugh-out-loud moment. Nobody else generates anything more than a weak chuckle. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaMay 4, 2015
Ira Sachs, for all the tenderness of feeling he brought to Love Is Strange, wouldn't have countenanced the stacked-deck sentimentality that lies at this film's heart. Read full review
42
The PlaylistJessica KiangMay 6, 2015
It's quite difficult to hate 5 Flights Up as much as a project this pointless and trite deserves, because of the attractive playing of the central pair. Keaton and Freeman share absolutely zero sexual chemistry, but watching them twinkle at each other and ruefully indulge each other's tiny mood swings is an experience so aggressively engineered for adorability it becomes hypnotic. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMay 27, 2015
Terribly slight but not unpleasant, 5 Flights Up is hardly worth the climb. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 7, 2015
You hate to see a good cast wasted, but when it comes to 5 Flights Up, the verdict is: no sale. Read full review
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