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OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh |
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6/10 | "Una cinta bastante regular y que en su pretensión aspira a ser más de lo que es, sin lograrlo del todo." |
| Cinenganos |
| Alex Ramirez |
| "A ROYAL pain. It made me squirm instead of laugh." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
| "The intricacy and precision of the educational process in The Royal Tenenbaums (for characters and viewers) are surely admirable, but they leave little room for surprises or upsets." |
| Nitrate Online |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
3.5/4 | "Wes Anderson's and Owen Wilson's wild, wooly, and wonderful follow-up to their surprise 1998 hit Rushmore." |
| Movie Boeuf |
| David N. Butterworth |
C+ | "... somehow can't get its feet on the ground to tell its story without hitting you over the head with its adolescent charm." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
1.5/4 | "The comedy is threadbare, the drama plays like an afterthought, and there are too many characters to thoroughly develop any one of them." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
4/4 | "Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums unfolds like a regal fairy tale." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
A+ | "A film you do not want to miss" |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
A | "It soars to great comedic heights, but without even breaking a sweat." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
C | "The Royal Tenenbaums is pathetically lazy filmmaking disguised as hip and clever, a boring and indifferent comedy that tries to pull the suddenly popular scam of trying to be emotional in its emotionlessness." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
4/4 | "In writer-director Wes Anderson's brilliantly dysfunctional family comedy The Royal Tenenbaums, he delightfully skewers the indelible psychology of an overachieving bunch...engagingly irreverent and deliriously slick" |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B+ | "You have to admire its cleverness and eccentric charm." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
| "Takes family drama into fresh and hilarious new territory with these wacky characters and their bumbling attempts to come to terms with love, forgiveness, and respect." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "Rarely (if ever) side-splittingly funny, but there are so many clever moments that nasty chuckles and devilish smiles come at frequent intervals." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "the film's most incredible achievement is that it leaves you not only smiling, but with a sense of hope for this screwed-up clan" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/5 | "Wes Anderson's fairy tale of New York has martini-dry comedy and a superb ensemble cast that can't overcome the failings of the quirky, convoluted script." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
2.5/4 | "This is quirky theater infused with comic highlights, and an unfortunate number of lowlights." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
9/10 | "Wilson and Anderson have served up a plate of hilariously imperfect characters to populate the world of the Tenenbaum family." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
A- | "Given such rich material, the cast unsurprisingly flourishes and excels." |
| Matinee Magazine |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
3/4 | "The characters are wonderful and Anderson obviously loves them." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
| "Entertaining to watch simply because it's so different from most of what Hollywood routinely offers." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
8/10 | "There's only one word which accurately describes this movie to a tee and that word is "quirky"." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
| "Every character feels complete. By the time the final chapter is over, we feel like part of the family." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
10/10 | "A heartbreaking, gut-busting comedy -- one of the best this country has produced since Woody Allen was pumping out consistent classics in the '70s." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
2.5 | "Don't be prodded into thinking the movie must be brilliant just because the characters within are allegedly smarter than you are." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
4.5 | "The Royal Tenenbaums shares much with its predecessor Rushmore in terms of tone, presentation,& glorification of the hubris of genius." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/4 | "Anderson remains one of the truly original voices in contemporary American filmmaking, and I'm sure he has his best movies still ahead of him." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "the sweetest eccentricity" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/5 | "How charmed you are by the quirky Tenenbaums will determine how much you enjoy their tortured efforts to work things out." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "If the dysfunctional family is a distinctly American pop-culture cornerstone, Anderson has created a small opus of the American family." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
3/4 | "Wes Anderson tries a little too hard to be offbeat" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Like a New Yorker cartoon come to life, droll and sad and knowing at the same time, The Royal Tenenbaums is sublime." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/4 | "There's no mistaking The Royal Tenenbaums for being anything other than a Wes Anderson film, and that is most certainly a compliment." |
| Mr. Brown's Movies |
| Michael Dequina |
4.5/5 | "It's not that often that a movie comes along that satisfies on so many levels." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
5/5 | "Wes Anderson's marvelous screenplay (written with Owen Wilson) for The Royal Tenenbaums may be one of the smartest scripts of the past few years." |
| Daily-Reviews |
| Mike Pinsky |
3/5 | "Combines elements of satire, fantasy, comedy, tragedy, farce, and drama, which will make some audiences uncomfortable but seem just right to others." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
4/5 | "Em alguns momentos, não sabemos direito se devemos rir ou chorar depois de ouvirmos certos diálogos, mas esse é o charme do filme." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "Unforgettably good stuff." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
| "I liked it a great deal, but it felt like too much of a good thing, very aware of its own cleverness. Upon my second and third viewings, I realized that the above are still true: which is exactly why I love the film now." |
| TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
| Rick Curnutte |
2.5/4 | "The leisurely, indifferent pace of the film is probably why it is rated so poorly among young viewers ... It does have its rewards." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "Gene Hackman...does give a solid, funny perf as the fallen-from-grace Royal." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
10/10 | "The Royal Tenenbaums is equal parts smart, silly, sardonic and sweet. It’s a scathing dark comedy, a twisted sitcom, an arcane farce and even a touching romance." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
| "In their quest to make this film different, however, I just feel Anderson and Wilson forgot to make it interesting." |
| Eclipse Magazine |
| Sean O'Connell |
| "Rushmore director Wes Anderson is more interested in his own precocity than he is in his characters." |
| Salon.com |
| Stephanie Zacharek |
4/4 | "A mellifluous, labyrinthine thing, indescribably delicious and ambitiously literate." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
10/10 | Read review |
| Modamag.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
4/10 | Read review |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Susan Granger |
| Read review |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh |
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