Everybody's Fine
Miramax Films | Release Date: December 4, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
8
Negative:
7
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88
New York PostKyle Smith
After seeing Everybody's Fine, Paul McCartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid McCartney tune: warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Here, the actor (Di Niro) dials it down and wins us over. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
"Relief" is the word for it. It's a relief to see Robert De Niro giving an honest, effective starring performance in a project that does not stink and that, in fact, rises to a respectable level of filmmaking proficiency. How long has it been? Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
De Niro's minimalist performance has maximum emotional impact and succeeds in unifying the episodic film. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Now comes this American version, which turns out to be the exception, an American remake that's better than the European original. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The movie works because so much of what's on screen will resonate with viewers. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
At one point, Frank contemplates a wheeled suitcase and infuses in that one moment the sweetness and vulnerability of E.T. See Everybody's Fine, but one piece of advice: Phone home first. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This is sentimental but dramatically solid, its placid themes fortified by De Niro. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
What's finest about Everybody's Fine is to watch a good fella groping hopefully toward old age. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
All that could redeem this thoroughly foreseeable unfolding would be colorful characters and good acting. Everybody's Fine comes close, but not close enough. Read full review
60
VarietyAndrew Barker
Though a bit too artful to merit the pejorative "tearjerker" label, the film is rigorously streamlined to deliver a good emotional uppercut by the end, and purely on the strength of its craft, it connects. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
This is the kind of work a great actor does when he's not preoccupied with giving a great performance. Its very casualness is its big selling point. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Once it’s clear the movie won’t be deviating at all from its formula, Frank’s journey gets tedious. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
If nothing else (and there ain't much else), Everybody's Fine does prove one thing: Even an actor with the gifts of Robert De Niro can't make bland interesting. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
De Niro, trying his ordinary-guy best not to be mannered, gives one of his most mannered performances. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Follows a dispiritingly predictable arc. Read full review
42
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
It’s offensive, really, this blatant pandering to emotions. Read full review
40
Village VoiceRobert Wilonsky
Robert De Niro's only good at playing a dad in movies starring Ben Stiller? It's all so much raging bull. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter Travers
No trite, tear-jerking cliché goes undrooled in the script by director Kirk Jones. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
It's a syrupy, downbeat film. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Everybody’s Fine – a movie about the lies grown children tell their parents – is, ironically, one of the most disingenuous movies to come out of Hollywood in a while. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Calculatedly soppy, seasonally phony Americanized remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 "Stanno Tutti Bene." Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
A cloyingly sentimental story that rings false in every moment. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Even supremely talented actors like Melissa Leo (as a confidently sexy trucker) and Brendan Sexton III (as a train-station beggar) are stifled by all the pseudo-redemptive mush. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The queasiness produced by this sentimental weepie builds into a wave of nausea during its interminable finale. Read full review
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