Gray Matters
Yari Film Group Releasing | Release Date: February 23, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
11
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
While Kramer's well-conceived screenplay features much amusing dialogue, there's a forced quality to the proceedings that makes the comic premise seem more artificial than it needs to be. Read full review
50
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Scripter/helmer Sue Kramer's awkward freshman outing eventually coasts on the genuine charm of its leads. A strong vehicle for Heather Graham, who has never looked lovelier, "Gray" scores most convincingly in its reinvention of Carole Lombardian sexual screwiness as head-spinning gender confusion. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Compared to Gray Matters, even a Nora Ephron bonbon has the weight of urban neo-realism. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
The only bright spots are Cavanagh's easy charm about him and Cumming's performance as Grody -- he's much more believable as a straight man than Graham is as a gay woman. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
This exhausting romance feels more like a long-lost episode of "Three's Company" in which Jack Tripper decides he is actually gay. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Some of it works, most of it doesn't. But the real problem of the movie is that it's so utterly lacking in freshness and originality. This is exactly the kind of formulaic indie gay comedy that was so overdone in the '80s and '90s that it became a film festival cliché. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Mildly diverting but slight, the screwball comedy Gray Matters changes it up, more or less creating its own genre, the curveball farce. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Graham makes the coming-out dithering bearable, but not before she has jumped through hoops of contrivance. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Far from a watershed moment for lesbian coming-out films, Gray Matters has a queer sensibility that's several miles south of "Will & Grace." Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesSam Adams
Kramer shows zero feeling for the nuances of a midlife sexual awakening. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Unfortunately, the film, written and directed by Sue Kramer, starts with a distinctly uncomfortable moral baseline: How exactly is any audience supposed to identify with a character whose relationship with her brother borders on the incestuous? Read full review
38
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
For all of 10 minutes, Gray Matters looks like it might have accomplished the impossible: uncovering a romantic-comedy scenario audiences haven't seen a million times before. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Every once in a while you catch glimpses of originality and see what Gray Matters might have been if it hadn't gone soft and safe. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Graham was good in films such as "Boogie Nights" and "Bowfinger" where her apparent innocence was a smoke screen for her lustful connivance. To be effective in the movies, she needs something to counteract her wholesomeness. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Watching Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and a stridently adorable Alan Cumming do their wide-eyed, moony thing in the romantic comedy Gray Matters raises the question: Is it possible for a filmgoer to be twinkled to death? Read full review
25
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
Nothing shakes this pathetic attempt at humor from its self-satisfied torpor. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The dearth of ideas is exemplified at the end by a Mary Tyler Moore freeze-frame of Graham leaping in the air. Read full review
12
New York PostLou Lumenick
There isn't a remotely believable moment in the script here, and Kramer's leaden direction only helps strand a capable cast headed by Heather Graham in an hour and a half of virtual laugh-free tedium. Read full review
10
Village VoiceMichelle Orange
Coming from the strangely vacuous Graham, in a Manhattan this preposterous, the staid social message is as ludicrous as its surroundings. Read full review
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