The Family Fang
Starz Digital Media | Release Date: April 29, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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60
ScreenCrushE. Oliver WhitneyMay 7, 2016
It may not be as poignant a story as its characters give way to, nor reach the cathartic resolutions it builds towards, but The Family Fang is still a refreshingly creative approach to the family drama. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisMay 5, 2016
Mr. Bateman’s direction of the actors is especially sensitive in this and other tricky scenes, showing a delicacy with emotional textures that isn’t always matched by the story, especially when Annie and Baxter speak in therapeutic clichés. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeySep 18, 2015
The Family Fang, based on a book of the same name by Kevin Wilson, looks on paper like your typical, middleweight, dysfunctional-family angst-fest. But it’s rather better, and considerably more eccentric, than you might expect. Read full review
58
HitfixGregory EllwoodOct 20, 2015
The movie wants to make a statement about the intersection of art and family, but it’s all too muddled to add up to anything that astute. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisMay 4, 2016
For most of the film, Bateman, the director, manages to bring out the two principals’ anguish without resorting to sentimentality, until the unsatisfying last quarter of the film. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 29, 2016
The reason I’m rating this movie higher than I would otherwise, is Christopher Walken. His commitment to making Caleb as thoroughly unlikable as humanly possible yields a character who’s kind of terrifyingly off-putting even when his words and actions are ineffectual. A piece of acting alchemy of which only few are capable. I can’t imagine how powerful it might have been in a better movie. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 29, 2016
Kidman works up to a fine but somewhat under-motivated fury. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerApr 27, 2016
What’s left is those two strong performances. Bateman is especially funny in the sequence that lands Baxter in the hospital, and Kidman never resorts to shallow-actress clichés when indicating how a life in different kinds of spotlights may have frayed at Annie’s nerves. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianApr 17, 2016
There's real texture and emotional heft to the central relationship between the siblings, but that's thanks more to the actors than the script. Read full review
40
The GuardianCatherine ShoardSep 15, 2015
Saturation point when it comes to quirkily dysfunctional families in over-soundtracked dramedies was reached long ago. Read full review
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