Boynton Beach Club Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The way Boynton Beach residents reach out to one another is enough to make you consider relocating to one of these communities.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

Cannon actually is funny -- not to mention funny-looking. Plastic surgery has left her physically absurd, like a vaguely glamorous R. Crumb cartoon.Read the full review

Variety | Ronnie ScheibAdd Critic to Favorites

Briskly paced humor and/or pathos flow organically from situation and characters.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

As a niche entertainment catering to an overlooked audience, Boynton Beach Club is remarkable mostly for its optimism and solid performances.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

Smoothly balancing comedy and pathos, it infuses the fantasy with enough credibility to make you care about these people and wish them merrily on their way.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

There are plenty of reasons to like the movie, such as its genuinely gentle wit, its occasional capture of the absurdities of aging and its endorsement of the permanence of lust, but one factor in particular is its brilliant cast of discarded '70s-era Hollywood stars.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Michael RechtshaffenAdd Critic to Favorites

A thoughtful and nicely observed dramedy about a group of AARP-sters grappling with life, loss, love and -- gasp -- sex in a South Florida "active adult community."Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Gracious, if meandering.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Too often, Boynton Beach Club feels like a made-for-TV movie with a little sex, nudity, and profanity thrown in to spice things up.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

It's refreshing to see a film that so directly addresses the issues and concerns of a vast, overlooked demographic, but it'd be much more satisfying if Boynton did more than just affably skate along the surface.Read the full review

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