The Sisters
Arclight Films | Release Date: April 14, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Intelligent, observant entertainment designed for an adult audience. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Bello is phenomenally good as the embittered Marcia, while Stuart and Christensen do their best with their less complex roles, but they're all undermined by Alfieri's shrill, mannered dialogue and cliched backstories that wouldn't be out of place in a dysfunction-family-of-the-week movie. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The Sisters is still somewhat compelling thanks to Bello, whose unguarded, provocative work continually resuscitates this corpse of a melodrama whenever it lays fallow. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
The Sisters may be worth a look, however, for the work of the magnificent Bello and Tony Goldwyn, who's never been better than as the married man with whom Marcia has an affair. Their final clench is pure, guilty-pleasure melodrama, which means it's not the least bit Chekhovian. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Family gatherings in the movies are shorthand for brutal trips down mine-strewn memory lanes. The Sisters doesn't disappoint in that regard. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Projects like this bring out the best in actors, who take salary cuts to work in Chekhov (even at one remove). What we can guess, watching the film, is that the same players would make a good job of "Three Sisters" but are undermined by the faculty club, which works like a hotel lobby. There's no way to sustain dramatic momentum here. Read full review
40
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Even a magnificently inspired Maria Bello proves insufficiently daring to save Richard Alfieri and Arthur Allan Seidelman's Chekhov-based chamber piece Sisters from pretentious psychodrama. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil Genzlinger
Insufferable characters make for an insufferable play or movie. The Sisters, a grueling family feud conceived by Richard Alfieri, proves the point. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
A pompous, overwrought and itchingly claustrophobic psychodrama. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Pretentious, stagy and over-the-top update of Chekov's "The Three Sisters." Read full review
30
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
A clumsy graft of Chekhovian high dudgeon and harsh, Albee-esque psychological realism that probably worked better onstage. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore
Lifeless and irredeemably sour. It is difficult to imagine much of an audience embracing it, despite a cast of well-knowns and up-and-comers. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The Sisters isn't just bad Chekhov; it's bad Chekhov modernized and then plunked in front of a camera. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The result is an insufferable academic cocktail party of declamatory speeches coaxed to life in its middle stretch by the incredible Maria Bello, who wades in like a paramedic at a disaster scene. Read full review
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