Living Out Loud Critic Reviews

It's the film you need to see in order to understand why the ending of "As Good As It Gets" was phony.Read the full review

Living Out Loud becomes an ode to openness, to letting in everything that the world throws at you. Read the full review

LaGravenese may be unsteady at the helm, but his film insinuates like a torch song that keeps messing with your head. Read the full review

Living Out Loud is not a monumental motion picture. In fact, in many ways, it's quite the opposite - a quiet, unassuming story of friendship and love that uses richly-developed characters to charm its audience. Read the full review

This is screenwriter Richard LaGravenese's directorial debut and now that he's in charge, he finally has his chance to give dialogue and character their due. Read the full review

LaGravenese lets real-life messiness keep it off a straight track, coming up with an unexpected and touching portrait of platonic friendship.Read the full review

The filmmaker has borrowed from Chekhov the soul-baring introspection that can be so ineffable on the page or stage yet becomes so damply sensitive and dramatically vague on screen. Read the full review

This feminist comedy shot through with fantasies about the travails of newly single womanhood strikes some rich chords, but doesn't quite put together a complete tune.Read the full review

Much about Living Out Loud is pretty far-fetched, but at least it accurately portrays the dating possibilities for newly divorced women of a certain age.Read the full review