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Marvins Room
PG (SINGAPORE)
1997
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Positive Reviews
19
Negative reviews
7
Average Rating
3.2
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3.0
But for the performances of Keaton, Streep, and DiCaprio, its worth putting up with some free floating sentimentality.
EW
4.4
There is a lot to say, and director Jerry Zaks lets them say it.How do families fall apart
Rogerebert
4.5
Streep gives her most credible blue collar performance to date; Keaton sidesteps saintliness to mix vulnerability and small heroics.
Time Out
0.5
Its all plinky plink pianos and mewing oboes, trying to jerk those tears a little too hard. No, a lot too hard. The music is awful. Stupendously bad.
1.5
Marvins Room seems to exist primarily to road test every one of your emotions.
3.8
But his underlying silliness brings a humanity to what might otherwise had been a formulaic venture into the Hollywoodcult of Good People Dying movies ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.8
Any movie with Meryl Streep is an occasion, but when you add Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hume Cronyn and Gwen Verdon, youve got a ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
It is of higher class than any made for TV melodrama but falls short of being the next Steel Magnolias or Awakenings. Great actors do what they can in ..
4.0
Zany and emotionally affecting story about death, aging parents, reconciliation, and the healing power of selfless love.
Spirituality And Practice
4.4
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
2.0
Several characters chronic illnesseswhich are frequently milked for comedy as well as poignancyseem to stand for something else, something dark and id ..
Chicago Reader
3.0
Branagh is a director with enough ambition and talent to be great.
2.5
But as a movie, Marvins Room has problems, from its awkward staginess to its overly sentimental treatment to the fact that it is by the numbers predic ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.0
For me this film leaned heavily to the hackneyed, but admittedly there were those in the audience who were touched by the films message.
Internet Reviews
3.5
The superb cast certainly deserves much of the credit for that success.
Internet Reviews
3.8
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.0
Great actors do what they can in a simple and largely unaffecting story.
Empire
5.0
Scott McPherson has written a witty and sensitive screenplay, where laughter and tears are a hairs breadth apart.It is rich with warmth, texture and s ..
2.0
Movies offer us wildly divergent stories with vivid, close up emotions, and so did the six fimmakers we invited to take part in the Envelope Directors ..
Calendar Live
3.8
Keaton is given a rare opportunity here to remind us that shes not simply a fine comedienne, and shes marvelous.
Movies Tv Guide
3.5
Zaks, a terrific theater director, hasnt yet got the hang of film.
News Week
4.5
I admire the piece because Scott McPherson brought to life something thats always overlooked.
Boston Phoenix
2.0
M arvins Room is a Hollywood rarity: a terminal illness movie that doesnt beat you over the head with overwrought sentimentality or a big weepy death ..
About Film
3.8
Well acted, but not often believable, dysfunctional family drama.
Cine Matter
1.5
The movies tone is mostly mushy and tearjerking, bounced occasionally into a tighter, more sardonic humor by DiCaprio andKeatons performances.
3.1
Great work from Dicaprio, De Niro, and especially Streep certainly make the film watchable, but it still cant save it from feeling like a TV movie of ..
Film Geek Central
4.4
Its strength comes from vibrant, close to the bone acting, particularly by Diane Keaton in her Oscar nominated role.
Enquirer
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