Life as a House Critic Reviews

Kline is one of the rare major actors not afraid to look like hell. And given his character's plight, his willingness to get physically unpleasant matches the emotion he brings to the part.Read the full review

Works as a heart-warming, involving experience.Read the full review

Because it is slick and classy and good to look at, and the actors are well within their range of competence, you can enjoy the movie on a made-for-TV level, but you wish it had been smarter and tougher.Read the full review

It's a pleasant movie, written with care for the characters. But as the film's title suggests, scriptwriter Mark Andrus has made too obvious and clunky a metaphor of George's house.Read the full review

This one is nearly as bad as it gets, suggesting that all the wrong people were wielding the sledgehammers here.Read the full review

Kline, in particular, has the spark and know-how to overcome some awfully belabored writing and situations.Read the full review

Built with fine materials and boasts a gorgeous ocean view. Unfortunately the family dramedy's design is overblown and the construction is pretty flimsy.Read the full review

A family melodrama that becomes less authentic as it progressively takes itself more seriously.Read the full review

Mark Andrus's script is built on soggy sandstone, and Irwin Winkler's bulldozer direction keeps unearthing toxic epiphanies. That's not to say the movie isn't occasionally moving, as well as exasperating.Read the full review