Oddly starring two well known British actors as the woebegone American leads, it's a tedious character study that forgets about characterization.

| Aug 12, 2019

A movie about a man struggling mightily for internal change needs to be more psychologically acute than Arthur Newman to command our empathy or even our full credulity.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 26, 2019

Completely disposable ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2014

A film that fails to make the most of a good cast and a great premise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2014

A bland and baffling oddity ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2014

The stars play strangers on an odd road trip who are meant to be finding things out about each other: if you were put next to either of them on a plane, you would quickly regret your seating assignment.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 26, 2014

Constantly screws up even its own mid-sized ambitions.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 20, 2014

a far-fetched story, told in a rather unappealing way.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2013

Despite some amusing lighthearted moments, the film stumbles when it attempts to be more profound.

| Jun 12, 2013

Arthur Newman is overwhelmed with arty ambitions and a heavy-handed acting style. Ultimately, all the weight prevents the film from taking off and soaring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2013

Obviously the theme of "Arthur Newman" is the American dream of starting over, but Johnston's screenplay hits it so obviously that it loses its resonance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2013

A strange film about dysfunctional people directed with good pace by Dante Ariola in his feature film debut highlighted by fine performances by Colin Firth and Emily Blunt.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 27, 2013

Academy-award winner Colin Firth seems to be doing someone a favor by agreeing to play Walter Avery/Arthur Newman.

| Original Score: C | Apr 27, 2013

Ariola can't keep the proceedings moving forward, wallowing in the blue mood for far too long. It makes a decent movie with something to share about the exhaustion of defense mechanisms into a slog that leaves its actors high and dry.

| Original Score: C | Apr 26, 2013

Firth and Blunt give life (and flawless American accents) to this restrained, and occasionally bland, road trip flick.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2013

Firth's performance alone would have been enough to hail this film by director Dante Ariola. Toss in an equally powerful performance by Blunt, and the film turns to a masterwork of acting.

| Original Score: B | Apr 26, 2013

Often-somber drama has language, sex, drinking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2013

They embark on one of those maundering, life-lessony odysseys that filmmakers love but audiences rarely do.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 26, 2013

This is a decidedly minor effort, directed by Dante Ariola with a bland, generic eye, missing the pathos of interesting drama and the charm of quality romantic cinema.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2013

One of those many indies that exist to give actors a chance to go slumming.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 26, 2013