The Thing About My Folks Critic Reviews
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Avoids easy shtick and saccharine conclusions, opting instead for character dynamics that the two leads deliver with consummate skill.Read the full review
The movie is sort of a sideways version of "Sideways," even down to a scene where the two men join two women for dinner. The difference is, in "Sideways" the guys desperately want to impress the women, and in The Thing About My Folks, they want to impress each other.Read the full review
Good-natured but only memorable as a platform for the amusingly feisty Peter Falk, The Thing About My Folks plies a light approach to the problems grown children face when their parents appear on the verge of divorce.Read the full review
Thing is Woody Allen on a third-grade reading level. Neurosis abounds, but awareness doesn't, and certain ''jokes'' demand additional therapy.Read the full review
Sweet but dramatically inert.Read the full review
Despite the grumpy, flatulent behavior the script demands of him, Mr. Falk rises above the treacly shenanigans.Read the full review
Flirts bravely, though gratingly, with messy, complicated emotions before ultimately drowning them in a warm bath of sticky sentimentality.Read the full review
It's a family comedy-drama that wants to pluck the heartstrings but keeps getting tangled in its own tinny sentiment.Read the full review
