| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 14, 2005

The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2005

Assisted Living is a remarkably moving look at the prisons in our midst that most of us manage to ignore until we need them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2005

Authentically unconventional -- opening in the form of an almost convincing mock documentary -- but it gradually evolves into something more deeply affecting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2005

It's a sensitive portrayal of a jolly, caring environment that unwittingly converts its charges into helpless infants.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2005

Works more than it doesn't, though it's easy to conclude that the film exploits some of the elderly in the movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2005

In this lovely and loving film, the comedy is mellow and the mood is intimate.

| Original Score: B | Mar 17, 2005

What gives Assisted Living its power is that the film was shot in a real home for the aged, and the patients -- with the exception of Riley's Mrs. Pearlman -- are genuine.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2005

This quiet, often meditative film is filled with observant, graceful touches that suggest the assured hand of a veteran filmmaker.

| Feb 4, 2005

Tedious, film-school level exercise in self-indulgence and exploitation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 4, 2005

Fascinating experimental film.

| Feb 3, 2005

Much more drama than fact, but it is the addition of real-life elements that give it such an unusual sense of authenticity and truth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2005

What gives Assisted Living its unexpected weight is the spectacular turn by Riley, a former circus performer.

| Feb 3, 2005

Elliot Greenebaum's hardheaded comedy has the guardedly facetious tone of a fake documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2005

The problem with Greenebaum's approach is that in courting the confusion between real and constructed realities, he allows our emotional response to become similarly confused.

Full Review | Feb 2, 2005

Playing jokes on old people isn't funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 2, 2005

Parts of the film play like the world's slowest and most insensitive reality show.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Feb 2, 2005

Greenebaum never molds his inchoate elements into any clear shape.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 1, 2005

This art house fodder is just quirky and fresh enough to catch on with audiences.

Full Review | Oct 13, 2003