A Family Affair
Abramorama | Release Date: September 16, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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90
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 15, 2016
This deceptively artless, journal-style film has no need for any carefully sculpted twists; rather, it’s the sheer unpredictable perversity of human nature that takes the breath away at key points in Fassaert’s unsettling, perhaps unsolvable, inquiry. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijSep 15, 2016
The film is much more about the way in which people perceive one another than about the way people really are. Read full review
80
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganSep 15, 2016
A Family Affair is by turns fascinating and futile, running the risk that by exposing the heartbreak of one family it will repel all those with their own unresolvable family sadness. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustSep 15, 2016
Tom gradually chips away at the preening facade to seemingly unmask a complex woman whose self-image was largely shaped by her appearance-obsessed father. However, the deeper he digs, the more elusive his subject becomes. Read full review
80
Village VoiceAbby GarnettSep 15, 2016
It’s a potent psychodrama, pitting Marianne’s reality against the one Fassaert is documenting Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWes GreeneSep 15, 2016
Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another. Read full review
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennySep 15, 2016
By the jaw-dropping climax (an argument over a family portrait), and the film’s not-entirely unpredictable denouement, you aren’t sure whether you are witnessing an investigative family chronicle or an act of revenge. Read full review
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