Hope Springs
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 8, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Total FilmEllen E. JonesSep 1, 2012
Fine turns from Streep and Jones bedrock this compassionate, quietly subversive drama. Read full review
60
MovielineLorien HaynesAug 8, 2012
Had the movie been made with two different lead actors, I surely believe the movie would have been unwatchable. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 8, 2012
Billed as a dramatic comedy, and it lives up to that billing, even if it tends more toward chuckles than guffaws. In other words, one thing it's not is "It's Complicated," Streep's previous -- and often riotous -- relationship dramedy. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 10, 2012
Streep and Jones make themselves small: She's chirpy; he's crusty. Incessant pop standards on the soundtrack supply the emotion the director can't. All that's missing are commercials for estrogen cream and erectile-dysfunction meds. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAug 9, 2012
The movie is oddly impersonal - you remember the concept more than the story - and feels like something that was made simply for the opportunity to pair Streep and Jones for the first time. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 8, 2012
The movie is an awkward cross between a domestic comedy and a marital tragedy that's laced with laughs, soggy with tears and burdened by a booming, blunt soundtrack that amplifies every narrative beat. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 7, 2012
It's about as uncomfortable as sitting through an interminable counseling session - involving two people you hardly know and don't much care about. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 7, 2012
You feel embarrassed for Streep and Jones (Streep especially) because of the situations, often sexual, they're put in. They're definitely not mailing in their performances. Read full review
50
Village VoiceSimon AbramsAug 7, 2012
Jones and Streep give likable enough performances as a humane monster and a human victim. But their characters never become more than that. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 7, 2012
People over 60 are as sexual and complicated as their grandchildren, and there ought to be more movies about them, but only an audience as constipated as these characters could mistake this lukewarm stream of pablum for a hard nugget of truth. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 16, 2012
As the couple try to rekindle the bedroom flame the note of cutesy comedy kicks in and the movie gets phonier and phonier. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearAug 7, 2012
When the sing-song Jones and beatifically smiling Streep are allowed to carry the dramatic weight, you can see the raw, tough-love film that Hope Springs wants to be - until Frankel starts trying to be lighthearted and cute, at which point you see the movie's real troubled marriage in full bloom. Read full review
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