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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "...perhaps unhappy families are all alike? There's a whole lot of sobbing, scowling, and sniping (and one 'Dynasty'-style catfight) going on in this dysfunctional-family wedding drama..." (Read the full review...) 92 words, 11/18/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "...both anguished and histrionic and in its strongest moments very, very good. But it is also overpopulated, strident and constitutionally unable to step back and scrutinize itself.... Ms. Barkin's exhausting performance is too shrill by half but impressive nonetheless." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 11/18/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "Sam Levinson's uneven family drama bears all the hallmarks of a self-conscious indie debut. But he has one distinct advantage many young filmmakers lack: a powerhouse cast." (Read the full review...) 289 words, 11/18/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a provocative if imperfect debut for writer-director Sam Levinson.... For all of its difficulties, there is an authenticity in Levinson's work.... It makes you wonder what he'll take on next, maybe a slightly happier day." (Read the full review...) 617 words, 11/18/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR (cg) "Sometime they'll make an indie film about a non-dysfunctional wedding, but 'Another Happy Day' is not it. If you liked 'Rachel Getting Married' or 'Margot at the Wedding,' you probably have good taste, so you should avoid this one." (Read the full review...) 229 words, 11/18/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: WEAK (cg) "There's nowhere to direct your sympathies in this rather relentlessly unhappy film." (Read the full review...) 372 words, 12/09/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "Hoping to distract us from the zero ideas found in his film, [director Sam] Levinson demands that his cast act loudly and unbearably..." (Read the full review...) 195 words, 11/16/11
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "...the characters are too broadly drawn, while the narrative is barely sketched in.... Nothing builds here, and the mood lurches from a snarky, self-pitying adolescent point-of-view to grab-the-Kleenex middle-aged melodrama." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 11/18/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...combines some of the stock elements of a family film with an extra something -- a go-for-the-jugular quality, a kind of Ingmar Bergman-like honesty and viciousness that brings it up a notch.... You've seen this before, and yet not quite in this way." (Read the full review...) 374 words, 12/09/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...as the drama and the anguish and the angst and the crises pile on for two hours, the movie becomes increasingly difficult to watch, despite its intelligence and strong cast." (Read the full review...) 446 words, 11/23/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "The acting is often quite good.... But debuting writer-director Sam Levinson has a scattergun approach with both the camera and the pen... the film is too often tricked-up when you want the gravity of the moments of pain and revelation to sink in." (Read the full review...) 277 words, 01/13/12
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "Hoping to distract us from the zero ideas found in his film, [director Sam] Levinson demands that his cast act loudly and unbearably..." (Read the full review...) 195 words, 11/16/11 Sam Adams, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "Director Sam Levinson stuffs the movie with so many emotional cross-currents and minor revelations that it's hard to keep them all straight, but the movie works the audience's nerves with enough determination to get under the skin and stay there..." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 11/17/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: GOOD (cg) "...unpleasant, shrill and exhausting -- everyone's so busy airing their own grievances no one has time to listen to anyone else's -- but it's a genuine actors' film anchored by some good performances, including a stand-out turn from Ellen Barkin..." (Read the full review...) 905 words, 11/17/11 Nick Schager, Slant: POOR (cg) "Rarely has a tale been more thoroughly ugly in every respect, and to no meaningful end, as writer/director Sam Levinson revels in presenting one nasty piece of work after another without any purpose..." (Read the full review...) 484 words, 11/13/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "...both anguished and histrionic and in its strongest moments very, very good. But it is also overpopulated, strident and constitutionally unable to step back and scrutinize itself.... Ms. Barkin's exhausting performance is too shrill by half but impressive nonetheless." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 11/18/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a provocative if imperfect debut for writer-director Sam Levinson.... For all of its difficulties, there is an authenticity in Levinson's work.... It makes you wonder what he'll take on next, maybe a slightly happier day." (Read the full review...) 617 words, 11/18/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: EXCELLENT "...bracing.... identifies passionately with its damaged but fearless heroine, who's doing the best she can in a thoroughly dysfunctional situation, but has no idea whether the future will be any better than the past." (Read the full review...) 905 words, 11/18/11
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: WEAK "Mistakes over-the-top dysfunctional family cruelty for comedy and drama... tries and fails to channel 'Rachel Getting Married' in its protracted tale of a wedding-party weekend that turns predictably from scabrous to redemptive." (Read the full review...) 520 words, 01/30/11 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "A family-dysfunction film that walks a fine line... earns its share of dark laughs without ever trivializing the very real pain almost all its characters endure." (Read the full review...) 583 words, 01/23/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a provocative if imperfect debut for writer-director Sam Levinson.... For all of its difficulties, there is an authenticity in Levinson's work.... It makes you wonder what he'll take on next, maybe a slightly happier day." (Read the full review...) 617 words, 11/18/11 Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "...both anguished and histrionic and in its strongest moments very, very good. But it is also overpopulated, strident and constitutionally unable to step back and scrutinize itself.... Ms. Barkin's exhausting performance is too shrill by half but impressive nonetheless." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 11/18/11
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