Watching a 60-something Robert De Niro travel the country in trains and buses to pay a surprise visit to his four children (who all bail on his invitation to come home) in a small-scale drama has a potent, empathetic simplicity.

| Dec 25, 2024

Instead of a holiday romp chalked with spice and laughs, the result is a mature and schmaltzy story about how families can go through life without ever knowing the ones close to them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2023

Everybody's Fine balances humor and drama in a familial odyssey anchored by compelling performances - particularly from De Niro and Drew Barrymore.

| Dec 20, 2021

Especially towards film's end, De Niro does indeed have a few moments to shine and shine he does.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

Described by Jones as a film about a family, based in reality and observation, EVERYBODY'S FINE strikes a harmonious balance between serious emotion and humor.

| Nov 6, 2019

The underplaying Mr. De Niro, though, is fascinating to watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2018

For no good reason, British director Kirk Jones overplays the sentiment, but the greater mystery here is how a great and experienced actor like De Niro continues to play with amateurs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

... a sweet tragicomedy... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2018

Although Mr. Jones's film has a myriad of other problems, the casting of Mr. De Niro is impossible to get past.

| Oct 7, 2015

Jones's efforts to re-tool the Italian original for an American audience prove disappointing. The comedy is broader, the dramatic crises have been sweetened and the ending has an uplift that was entirely missing from the original.

| Aug 2, 2012

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Pseudo-redemptive mush.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2011

66 year-old Robert De Niro accomplishes what may be his bravest role of the last two decades by simply choosing to play a real old man in Kirk Jones’ Everybody’s Fine.

| Oct 6, 2010

What makes the unabashedly sentimental package work a lot better than it should is Robert De Niro.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2010

...an unapologetically sentimental drama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2010

A recently widowed retiree embarks on a cross-country journey to visit each of his children, expecting to find them as happy and successful as their stories painted them.

| Mar 25, 2010

A film with a few inspired moments - mostly towards the end - sprinkled in with a whole lot of awkward, even mean, portions. The result is a major disappointment.

| Feb 28, 2010