Late Bloomers
Olive Films | Release Date: April 13, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostLou LumenickApr 13, 2012
Moves at a poky pace even by American indie standards. But it's worth checking out for the fine cast, which also includes Joanna Lumley as Rossellini's earthy pal, and scene-stealing Doreen Mantle as her tart-tongued but wise mother. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirApr 14, 2012
An entertaining diversion, mostly because Rossellini and Hurt are a pair of seasoned and graceful pros who know how to work every line and every gesture, and it's great to see them playing characters who are exactly their age. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreApr 11, 2012
As a portrait of aging, Late Bloomers is a little too easy, but its cast makes it worth a look, even so. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJun 6, 2012
An uneven but touching comedy with a cheery score that sounds too much like whistling on the way past the graveyard. Read full review
60
NPRMark JenkinsApr 16, 2012
The protagonists of Late Bloomers have a problem, but it's not that they're getting older. Their dilemma is that they're reacting so differently to aging. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonApr 10, 2012
She (Rossellini) is radiant in a profoundly ordinary and believable way, as always, and stirs up generational pathos all by herself. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenApr 12, 2012
As more characters, including the couple's three children - enter the picture, Late Bloomers loses its narrative thread and becomes so choppy that you have the sense that it was butchered during the editing process. What remains is the skeleton of a story that leads to an abrupt, icky-cute ending. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanApr 12, 2012
Though Hurt and Rossellini make a warmly believable couple, they can't overcome the film's biggest drawback: Gavras' own awkward attitude toward aging. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeApr 10, 2012
While the world could certainly use more films about characters entering their sunset years, a solution as toothless and saggy as Julie Gavras' Late Bloomers does little to help the cause. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichApr 10, 2012
Hurt tries on an English accent as if he were in the Walmart changing room and a splendid-in-theory supporting cast - Simon Callow, Joanna Lumley, Arta Dobroshi - either ham it up or make moony eyes. Extra discredit to the embarrassingly jaunty score by Sodi Marciszewer, which should be taken behind the recording studio and shot. Read full review
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