The Safety of Objects Critic Reviews

With the help of an ensemble that is nearly flawless, she (Troche) assembles the damaged human elements of Ms. Homes's world with patience and precision, and more often than not chooses dry understatement over easy satire or obvious sentiment.Read the full review

A genuine and tangible fondness and respect for the characters and their eccentricities.Read the full review

The interwoven stories are haunting, but also darkly funny. Read the full review

For all of Troche's skill and talent, The Safety of Objects (a splendid title) nevertheless tries to cover too much territory. In movies, as elsewhere, a little less sometimes can add up to a lot more.Read the full review

The disciplined performances play against schmaltz, and the casting is inspired.Read the full review

The film leaves you dissatisfied, as though you'd just spent two hours with a menagerie of plastic white people. Read the full review

Not a complete waste of time, but it doesn't make us FEEL the way better dramas do, and, in the end, it lacks the qualities that would make it memorable or powerful. Read the full review

Troche's tone is so relentlessly, depressingly monotonous that the characters seem trapped in a narrow emotional range. They live out their miserable lives in one lachrymose sequence after another, and for us there is no relief. Read the full review

Although it has moments of charm and poignancy -- this is one of Glenn Close's best hours -- the scheme and scope of the movie are just too darned obvious. Read the full review