Going in Style
Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 7, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
19
Negative:
2
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75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerApr 6, 2017
While this charming movie will be targeted to senior audiences, I hope younger generations check it out — as the humor and underlying messages are truly universal. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubApr 6, 2017
Like its lead characters, Going in Style just grooves along nicely, until the credits roll and you realize it was time well spent. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonApr 6, 2017
Delivers a feel-good film that nonetheless allows for genuine moments of working-class anger. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldApr 6, 2017
It’s an agreeably generic mishmash of every old-guys-pull-one-last-heist movie you’ve ever seen. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerApr 6, 2017
It’s strictly comfort food, 99 percent predictable, though the 1 percent that isn’t — you’ll know it when you see it — is deftly executed. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenApr 5, 2017
The geezer humor is just as funny here as it was in the original version of this film, which starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. I mean this as a compliment, although it’s, admittedly, a bit backhanded. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireApr 7, 2017
The comedy is bigger, the supporting players are wackier and the antics move to the bouncy beat of an incessantly perky soundtrack. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayApr 6, 2017
It’s the chemistry among these three fine actors that keeps Going in Style afloat, lifting it from the formulaic and forgettable — which, essentially, it is — and making it genuinely, if modestly, enjoyable. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 6, 2017
Going in Style stays in the safe zone every second, nervous about risking any audience discomfort, as opposed to Brest's quietly nervy ode to old age and its discontents. Times change. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrApr 6, 2017
The 1979 film was both more casual and much darker about the realities and infirmities of old age, and it had one of George Burns’s better performances. It was a funny, touching experience, and it was a bitter pill. The new movie is a placebo, with Hallmark emotions put over by a cast of solid-gold professionals. Read full review
60
Time OutDave CalhounApr 11, 2017
Don’t think too much about the plot; it’s about as water-tight as a corporate-pension scheme. All three stars deliver exactly what you expect from them — nothing more, nothing new — but their onscreen familiarity is a strange comfort in itself. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredRobert Yaniz Jr.Apr 9, 2017
Going in Style doesn't bring much imagination or innovation to the world of crime comedies, but its legendary stars enhance the experience enough to make it passable entertainment. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Apr 6, 2017
Going in Style has gone a little soft. The geezers-go-gangsta story is back, but in a remake that lacks the edge that made the 1979 original memorable. It’s cuddly when it should be cranky, nice when it needs to be a little nasty. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 6, 2017
Going in Style coasts along on the testy spiky charms of its leading men, who have 246 years of life on earth between them (Caine is 84, Freeman 79, and Arkin 83), but it’s nothing more than an amiable connect-the-dots movie. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversApr 7, 2017
There are times when Braff and Melfi hint at the darkness of a world that ignores seniors by making them invisible. But this new version of Going in Style sells uplift so hard it loses touch with reality – and any genuine reason for being. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyApr 6, 2017
A lazy hash of cheap geezer gags and spoon-fed sentiment. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartApr 6, 2017
Ultimately, all signs point to Going in Style having been overcooked by too many chefs: You know you’re in trouble when multiple scenes in the trailer never show up in the final product. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 6, 2017
Although Going in Style’s heist represents a high point and gets props for being suitably clever, it’s swamped by bad melodrama and lame comedy. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Johanna Schneller Apr 6, 2017
Having no emotional stakes leaves me cold, and leaves three cheeky actors with nothing to play. These characters are staring down death. They should be raging against the dying of the light, not going gently into their early-bird supper. Read full review
50
The Film StageJared MobarakApr 6, 2017
There are no surprises, for better or worse. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenApr 6, 2017
The real crime in Going in Style is its waste of acting talent. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaApr 6, 2017
Going in Style will probably be a lot more enjoyable if you’ve never seen the original. It’s not that the remake is terrible. It’s cheerful and undemanding, and an appealing cast makes the time go by painlessly enough. But the 1979 film is poignant and layered. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Apr 6, 2017
It’s probably worth noting that the whippersnapper behind the camera is none other than one-time sitcom star and indie darling Zach Braff. Did he owe someone a favor, or is this his attempt to break into the studio system he scorned with his last feature, the gooey Kickstarted passion project "Wish I Was Here"? Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 6, 2017
It has about as much satiric bite as a Polident commercial, a reverse mortgage of a movie promising dividends its enfeebled script never delivers. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 7, 2017
It’s a clunky, over-the-hill gang escapade enlivened only by the presence of the three Oscar winners, all of whom are so far beyond the movie’s meager demands that to say the actors are overqualified would be the grossest of understatements. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 6, 2017
With Caine, Freeman and Arkin, you know what you’re going to get. In Going in Style, it’s all you get. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranApr 6, 2017
If anything, it uses its gifted veterans to disguise how tired, implausible and overly sentimental the proceedings turn out to be. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonApr 6, 2017
A lazy heist comedy that asks little of its appealing leads, Going In Style goes down smoothly even if the only thing that really gets stolen is the audience’s time. Read full review
40
EmpireIan FreerApr 6, 2017
Despite the all-star trio and the rare joke that lands, Going In Style never hits its stride as a warm-hearted crime caper. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonApr 6, 2017
No one in Going in Style seems to really know what the hell they’re doing or why. And even though that goes double for the filmmakers, at least no one succumbs to taking any of it seriously. Read full review
35
TheWrapRobert AbeleApr 7, 2017
The clichéd story wouldn’t even be an issue if the movie were enjoyable. But little works as humor or suspense or sentiment once the job is on. Read full review
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