Three Days of Rain
Rogue Arts | Release Date: September 30, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A "Chekhovian" movie that's closer to the master's mood than many, it's also a jazzy, rainy day film that makes serious and amusing points about life and people in the midst of its downpour. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
A quiet, thoughtful film about isolation and separation. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
This is familiar but atmospheric, with good performances by Peter Falk, Blythe Danner, Joey Bilow, Michael Santoro, Merle Kennedy, and former football pro Don Meredith. Read full review
63
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A well-written and -acted drama that's also unrelentingly grim. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Three Days of Rain is only a sketch compared to the power of Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," which continues to grow in my memory. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Meredith has woven together a half-dozen portraits of contemporary lives-on-the-edge in this quietly searing drama. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Beautifully lit, with some inventive but unobtrusive framing, and the moody jazz score unifies the multiple storylines without overwhelming them. Yet while the movie never goes slack, it never really transcends its good intentions either. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyMatthew Duersten
The result is both a hypnotic mood piece -- where characters' blank existential stares are framed through rain-beaded car windows -- and a murky riff on urban Midwestern ennui (by way of the Russian steppes). Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
The acting and stories are uneven, but Erick Avari, as a man who wakes up to his humanitarian obligations, provides the movie's affecting center, and Peter Falk gives a harrowing performance as a hopeless drunk trying to manipulate his grown son. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
As a filmmaker, Meredith has a strong, if derivative, visual sense, although his screenplay is packed with too many cliches and familiar riffs. Read full review
30
Village VoiceDarren Reidy
The real subversion is director Michael Meredith's insistence on not capturing interactions between human beings in a frame; with some forethought he could have filmed the actors individually and spliced. Read full review
20
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Rain strives for a "Magnolia"-type tapestry of quiet desperation. But after 90 unremitting minutes of badly acted, atrociously written histrionic misery, pic leaves one praying for frogs. Read full review
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