Levinson piles on the anguish with such abandon he never convinces you that these people would ever speak to each other, much less live under the same roof.

| Dec 9, 2011

Combines some of the stock elements of a family film with an extra something - a go-for-the-jugular quality, a kind of Ingmar Bergman-like honesty and viciousness that brings it up a notch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2011

"Another Happy Day" becomes increasingly difficult to watch, despite its intelligence and strong cast. You wish this family well, but you're grateful to see the last of them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2011

If you liked Rachel Getting Married or Margot at the Wedding, you probably have good taste, so you should avoid this one.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 18, 2011

Dislikable movie characters don't always result in dislikable movies but that's certainly the case with Sam Levinson's Another Happy Day.

| Original Score: D+ | Nov 18, 2011

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

Levinson's movie is highly enjoyable, if cast in a conventional mold, but I'm fully going on the warpath for Barkin, who has soldiered on through a long period of post-stardom and deserves an Oscar nomination for this role, right now.

Full Review | Nov 17, 2011

For all of difficulties, there is an authenticity in Levinson's work that you can see in the film, and his is a compelling voice playing in that minor key.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Both anguished and histrionic and in its strongest moments very, very good. But it is also overpopulated, strident and constitutionally unable to step back and scrutinize itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's unpleasant, shrill and exhausting - everyone's so busy airing their own grievances no one has time to listen to anyone else's - but it's a genuine actors' film anchored by some good performances...

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Nov 17, 2011

Levinson's uneven family drama bears all the hallmarks of a self-conscious indie debut. But he has one distinct advantage many young filmmakers lack: a powerhouse cast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Ellen Barkin - playing the estranged mother of the groom - does a big heap of acting as one of the more histrionic members of the clan.

| Original Score: C | Nov 17, 2011

The movie works the audience's nerves with enough determination to get under the skin and stay there, a sensation that comes awfully close to an earned emotional response.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 17, 2011

It's good to see so much talent and feeling in one movie, and Another Happy Day has plenty of it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2011

A collection of Chekhovian characters sitting on a powder keg in a match factory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2011

Hoping to distract us from the zero ideas found in his film, Levinson demands that his cast act loudly and unbearably...

| Nov 15, 2011

[Mistakes] over-the-top dysfunctional family cruelty for comedy and drama.

| Nov 14, 2011

Rarely has a tale been more thoroughly ugly in every respect, and to no meaningful end.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Nov 13, 2011

Altmanesque in its sprawl and sympathetic attitude toward even its most flawed characters, Happy Day marks a mostly promising debut for director-writer Sam Levinson.

| Nov 4, 2011

Laugh-laced dark drama of family angst overcomes the hurdle of its wedding-weekend setting.

| Feb 8, 2011