Robot and Frank
Stage 6 Films | Release Date: August 17, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

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60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 9, 2012
An enjoyable diversion, a lightweight bit of philosophizing that blends humor with the bittersweet. It won't likely stick in your memory for too terribly long. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 16, 2012
No one conveys late-life elegy and cool intellectual cunning like Langella. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 16, 2012
Frank Langella plays so many variations on cute and crotchety and with such suppleness - he's by turns a charming codger, a silver fox and a wise graybeard - that his performance comes close to a saving grace. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneAug 11, 2012
The film is light-fingered and charming. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 23, 2012
Robot & Frank isn't sure whether it's a comedy or drama, buddy movie or sci-fi fantasy, family melodrama or social satire. Read full review
50
The PlaylistCory EverettAug 16, 2012
While the premise certainly makes it stand out from the sea of dysfunctional family dramas, a cute idea alone doesn't quite cut it. In the end it's just not funny enough to be completely entertaining and the sentiment feels tacked on. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAug 23, 2012
The concept is schematic and predictable, and watching first-rate actors - the cast includes Susan Sarandon as a local librarian - doing third-rate material is a dubious pleasure. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearAug 14, 2012
The pleasure of watching the star sling barbs at Sarsgaard's sandpaper-dry android, shyly court sexy librarian Susan Sarandon and rage against geriatric befuddlement doesn't offset what's essentially a mediocre character study dipped in sci-fi conventions and Social Security–age sentimentality. Read full review
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