Soft Fruit
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: March 17, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
78
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Yields beguiling nectar. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A slog to get through, but Jeanie Drynan's nuanced performance as the enduring matriarch makes it all worthwhile. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This Australian tear-jerker finds more humor than you'd imagine possible in the story of a dying woman getting to know her adult children. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Bursting with grotesque burlesques of household relations. Read full review
60
The New York TimesDana Stevens
The general talent and dedication of the ensemble mitigate the script's occasional lapses into sentimentality and noisy confrontation. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
The characters...are so unlikable that one longs for a bit of cheap sentiment if only to make them palatable. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Honest but also derivative and crude. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life. Read full review
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