The Farewell Party
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: May 22, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaJun 11, 2015
It actually is quite funny. It is also warm and empathetic, though a viewer's reaction to the film might vary depending how they view the subject of assisted suicide. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJun 4, 2015
The Farewell Party succeeds as well as it does because the core dilemma always feels real and the filmmakers take great care to see that the inevitable emotions put into play are never overdone. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniJun 19, 2015
Funny, wry, tragic, and deeply moving. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonMay 22, 2015
There’s an infectious joy to how the actors handle the morbid humor here, and it is never mean-spirited. Read full review
75
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 11, 2015
A bittersweet, wryly comic, keenly observed look at senescence. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 11, 2015
This is straight-up commercial comedy, low-keyed diversion, and while it can't hold a candle to recent, dark-comic Israeli achievements such as Joseph Cedar's "Footnote," the actors more than save it. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 19, 2015
The performers, working in Hebrew (with English subtitles), make their characters empathetic, emphatic, human and humane. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianMay 18, 2015
A neatly balanced tragicomedy about the easily blurred line between assisted living and assisted death. Read full review
70
The DissolveAndrew LapinMay 19, 2015
The film’s deft, improbable balance of tone makes its success feel well-deserved. Not many directors could have pulled off the blend of somber reflection and gallows humor that Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon manage here. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAbby GarnettMay 19, 2015
[Depicts] the end of life not as an isolated horror (as in Michael Haneke's Amour) or as the contested site of legal and political factions, but as a complex social phase, its wobbly moral scale hinging on empathy. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 11, 2015
Despite its missteps, The Farewell Party feels special in the way it covers the Big Stuff — love, death, friendship, family — without losing its playful streak. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMay 21, 2015
For all its sensitivity to the subject, The Farewell Party makes a number of tonal missteps of which the most glaring is the insertion of a musical number that upsets the movie’s otherwise sensible balance between the comedic and the morbid. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubVadim RizovMay 20, 2015
The Farewell Party leaves no doubt as to where it stands on the right to die with dignity when facing terminal illness, but it’s so clumsily made that it serves only to exasperate. Read full review
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