The Tollbooth
Castle Hill Productions | Release Date: February 3, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
3
Negative:
3
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75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Ambling but never less than endearing. Read full review
40
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Lack of perspective and shaky comic tone plague Tollbooth -- sinking it in a morass of whiny cliches. Read full review
40
Village VoicePeter L'Official
How is czarist Russia like modern-day Brooklyn? Touché, but let's say this time the answer's not Brighton Beach. It's not The Tollbooth either, but what with the movie's dramatization of the opposition between tradition and individualism for a Jewish family's three "marrying age" daughters, "Fiddler on the Roof" parallels will inevitably be drawn. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Telling an obviously lived-in tale, this small-scale indie drama suffers from a compendium of cliches. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The question is, if Sarabeth is so desperate to escape this oppressive distillation of Jewish neuroses, why would filmmaker Debra Kirschner think we'd want to stick around? Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Written and directed with overwhelming earnestness by Debra Kirschner, The Tollbooth can't overcome Sarabeth's self-involved narration and insipid personality. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Kirschner's excruciatingly earnest coming-of-age comedy, is about as fresh as year-old matzoh and plays like the unholy spawn of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Fiddler on the Roof." Read full review
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