A Late Quartet is a terrible film-it's like an idiots' Amour.

| Oct 3, 2017

We can note immediately that Zilberman has the requisite gifts.

| Jun 17, 2013

It is not flawless but it makes you watch, and listen, closely throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2013

It isn't great art, but it is patterned after great art, and there are worse ways to make a film than that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2013

Wants to be Bergman, ends up more like a burgundy-hued Sunset Beach.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2013

A movie with clarity and grownup complexity.

| Apr 4, 2013

Insightful and incandescent, this is a film for both music lovers and movie lovers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2013

The result is a perfectly serviceable, well acted melodrama - but why so serious?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2013

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2013

The screenplay by Seth Grossman and Israeli-American director Yaron Zilberman is old-fashioned and melodramatic but stirring in its portrait of people struggling with individual egos to produce something nobler than themselves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2012

[It] may not sound like a scintillatingly good time at the movies, but actually it is.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 29, 2012

Any artist who has worked as part of a group is sure to find a certain resonance in the offstage tussles of A Late Quartet, but there's too little going on here to sustain other viewers.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 16, 2012

The outstanding ensemble cast keeps the story - and its accompanying emotional heft - from becoming overly baroque.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 15, 2012

Walken - and Zilberman - shows us how music can utterly transport us to another place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2012

Engaging, intelligent, but direction doesn't quite live up to a first-rate cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 8, 2012

The movie is haut-bourgeois to the bone, but so am I: Let's hear some chamber music and have a little laugh and a cry!

| Nov 6, 2012

...the very definition of a character driven drama, the performances humbling in their power.

| Original Score: B | Nov 4, 2012

It's a treat-no, a privilege-to watch these superlative actors at work.

| Nov 2, 2012

Of the cast, the standout is Walken, who gives a performance of superlative grace amid all the hectoring.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 2, 2012