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Mary Pols, Time: VERY GOOD "Duvall once again makes your eyes sting; you're grateful that this septuagenarian is still getting chances to pull those magical rabbits out of his hat." (Read the full review...) 782 words, 07/30/10 David Germain, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a very old-fashioned comic drama whose charm comes more from the characters, performances and rich period feel than from the story..." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 07/29/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "Duvall's acting turns magical: scary, touching, and full of grace. But 'Get Low,' as directed by Aaron Schneider, forces you to sit through a lot of poky setup..." (Read the full review...) 223 words, 07/30/10 Michael Phillips, A.O. Scott, At the Movies: EXCELLENT (cg) Michael Phillips: "See it." A.O. Scott: "See it." (Watch the full review...) 203 seconds, 07/24/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "All you need to know is that 'Get Low' puts Duvall and Murray in the same movie. Only a fool would want to miss that." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 07/23/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...just plain enjoyable.... It's a genre piece for character actors is what it is, and that's an honorable thing for it to be." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 08/05/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...though the story sometimes wanders into hazy, corny sentiment, its protagonist is vivid, enigmatic and unpredictable." (Read the full review...) 930 words, 07/30/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Movies as great as 'Get Low' are as hard to find as a recluse in the woods.... a lovely, lyrical comedy-drama folk tale..." (Read the full review...) 432 words, 07/30/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Robert Duvall gives one of his best performances portraying a loner who decides to attend his own funeral.... what resounds is not the twists and turns of the story but its telling." (Read the full review...) 563 words, 07/30/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Felix's eventual confession before the crowd is one of Duvall's finest pieces of acting ever." (Read the full review...) 443 words, 07/30/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a meticulously droll turn from Bill Murray and a pitch-perfect portrayal from Sissy Spacek... 'Get Low' knows its business and gets down to it." (Read the full review...) 633 words, 08/06/10 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Felix simply wants to host his own goodbye, maybe have a band, and the reasons why are the reasons 'Get Low' is essential viewing. That, and the acting." (Read the full review...) 332 words, 08/20/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...just plain enjoyable.... It's a genre piece for character actors is what it is, and that's an honorable thing for it to be." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 08/05/10 Chuck Wilson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...imperfect but rewarding... has a streak of melancholy running through it that's right for the film's Depression-era setting... yet the script is also dotted with little drops of sly humor." (Read the full review...) 636 words, 07/28/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "Murray's character is a hoot, one of his better recent incarnations, and Spacek's widow Mattie is a well-deep figure who deserves more attention.... Duvall is a true American original." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 08/06/10 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "Both Duvall and Murray are in top form. Their chess match is immense fun, even if we sense that the game is fixed to ensure that the audience wins." (Read the full review...) 650 words, 08/06/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...works its way under your skin." (Read the full review...) 212 words, 08/05/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "With its rough-hewn poetics, suspenseful momentum and dashes of humor, 'Get Low' offers a shot of simple joy..." (Read the full review...) 456 words, 08/13/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "Spacek is spry and mysterious as Mattie Darrow; Murray is quiet and tricky - doubly so because the eccentricities you expect are appropriately low key." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 08/13/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Imagine two guys less suited to be in the same room together -- one gruff and the enemy of all dissembling; the other elliptical, ironic and incapable of ever stating the complete truth." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 08/13/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...no ordinary tale of a farm country hermit.... director Aaron Schneider lucked out with his cast..." (Read the full review...) 515 words, 08/20/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Duvall's delivery -- stammering, choking on his words, blinking back manly tears -- is a bravura moment. 'Get Low' is one of the high points of the summer." (Read the full review...) 517 words, 08/13/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Like its stars, the film's not particularly flashy, it's just good, and it's hard to find fault in that." (Read the full review...) 664 words, 08/13/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a charming, spiky period piece... Duvall creates with plain-spoken dignity a portrait of a man who has to bury himself before he can finally live." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 08/06/10 Stephen Whitty, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a gentle, welcome breath of fresh country air." (Read the full review...) 446 words, 08/20/10 John Hartl, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "Spacek, whose role is less than challenging, is given space to explore it -- and Murray, Black and Duvall have rarely been better." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 08/13/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "You could accuse 'Get Low' (rightly, I think) of a certain patness and simplicity. But the things it does well only look easy..." (Read the full review...) 294 words, 08/13/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "Duvall is a powerful actor, and this folksy fable could have been a career-capping feat, but the movie is toothless and slow." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 08/20/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a pleasant yarn, well-acted and dutifully mounted with period designs." (Read the full review...) 571 words, 08/26/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a sweet yet somber pleasure, something of a funeral party itself, blending humor and tragedy into a thoroughly human story..." (Read the full review...) 384 words, 08/20/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...tender and sentimental, a little schmaltzy, and ultimately too slight." (Read the full review...) 548 words, 08/13/10
Chuck Wilson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...imperfect but rewarding... has a streak of melancholy running through it that's right for the film's Depression-era setting... yet the script is also dotted with little drops of sly humor." (Read the full review...) 636 words, 07/28/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "Duvall adds sparkle with his cryptic decrepitude -- until that becomes as mannered and canned as the rest of the movie." (Read the full review...) 173 words, 08/05/10 Noel Murray, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...meant to be funny, heartwarming, and wise, and it is, for the most part -- but in an overly familiar way." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 07/29/10 Nick Schager, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...a down-home Americana fable... Quiet and precise, it's a character drama that treats modesty as a virtue in and of itself." (Read the full review...) 1,032 words, 07/27/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...works its way under your skin." (Read the full review...) 212 words, 08/05/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...like an old book, like a Mark Twain book, in which the pages are yellow but the print is still bold and easy to read." (Read the full review...) 1,005 words, 08/18/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) "...if there's something 'Get Low' has in spades, it's atmosphere: the film is visually cold and spare, and agreeably so, while at the same time it's emotionally warm and expressive." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 08/19/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...though the story sometimes wanders into hazy, corny sentiment, its protagonist is vivid, enigmatic and unpredictable." (Read the full review...) 930 words, 07/30/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "...deftly played, and it rarely mislays its ambling charm, but what a forbidding fable it could have been if the truth about Felix Bush, rather than emerging into sunlight, had slunk back into the woods." (Read the full review...) 1,062 words, 08/02/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Robert Duvall gives one of his best performances portraying a loner who decides to attend his own funeral.... what resounds is not the twists and turns of the story but its telling." (Read the full review...) 563 words, 07/30/10
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...casts a well-nigh irresistible spell while spinning a Depression-era folk tale from the Tennessee backwoods. Robert Duvall compellingly underplays the larger-than-life lead role..." (Read the full review...) 881 words, 09/15/09 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...coasts along on Southern folkloric whimsy and sly humor for a good while but can't escape the fact that, as backwoods legends go, this one lacks a real payoff." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 09/13/09 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Robert Duvall gives one of his best performances portraying a loner who decides to attend his own funeral.... what resounds is not the twists and turns of the story but its telling." (Read the full review...) 563 words, 07/30/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "Director Aaron Schneider has coaxed superb performances from his entire ensemble..." (Read the full review...) 786 words, 05/09/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...though the story sometimes wanders into hazy, corny sentiment, its protagonist is vivid, enigmatic and unpredictable." (Read the full review...) 930 words, 07/30/10
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