Arlen Faber Critic Reviews
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The Answer Man is a passable way to kill two hours on a lazy summer afternoon, and perhaps an excuse to get out of the heat.Read the full review
Never shows enough passion to be interestingly bad.Read the full review
Conveniently, everyone wears their symptoms on their sleeves, but because the characters are so haphazardly drawn, their pain remains elusive to the end.Read the full review
How much more interesting is a film like "(500) Days of Summer," which is about the complexities of life, in comparison with this one, which cheerfully cycles through the cliches.Read the full review
Dull, dreary Answer Man raises this question: Why?Read the full review
A perfect example of an Intelligent Bad Movie.Read the full review
Its crackly sarcasm and smart talk turn out to be simply coating for a soft, icky, center.Read the full review
Daniels plays Arlen with a kind of cuddly crankiness; he makes him a jerk who just needs a hug.Read the full review
Unoriginality is the greatest and most flagrant of its many sins.Read the full review
Jeff Daniels' gleeful misanthropy and Lauren Graham's emotional openness are poorly served by the pic's transparently phony story and therapeutic upliftRead the full review
