The family dynamics feel real and authentic in most cases, however some scenes and narrative pieces are very contrived.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 12, 2024

There is a lot of acting going on in August: Osage County and that's fine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2023

I was put off by these characters, their endless dysfunction, and their profane spite. This was a tiresome watch and tough movie to endure. It’s a shame because with this much talent I was expecting more.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2022

In the realm of performance-driven plays on film, August: Osage County is vital, if over-the-top, and heightened by its star-studded appeal.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2022

As is it the movie becomes a whack-a-mole of whether this actor is right for this part and are nailing their Oscar clip or not

| Jul 2, 2021

August: Osage County sometimes feels like you're watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf with all the tender parts removed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

August: Osage County is about morally flawed, sometimes cruel, and often unlikable women. And that's what makes August: Osage County good.

| Jan 20, 2021

As a character-driven drama, the film is largely uneventful and dragging, though the familial complications continue to intensify.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Minor flaws aside, August: Osage County is uncomfortable and irritating and brash and bold.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

August: Osage County captivates for every second of its two hours of spectacularly awful behaviour. Worth it for the battle of wills between Roberts and Streep alone, when the two finally come to blows, quite literally, it's sheer cinematic gold

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Streep competently dominates August: Osage County. It is her vehicle. As an aging cat on a hot tin roof, she gives a tour-de-force performance.

| Aug 13, 2020

With long monologue-like passages and extended scenes set in one particular spot of the house between two or three characters at a time, the movie has a hard time escaping its stage play origins.

| Jun 29, 2020

August: Osage County brings an outstanding story peppered with howling laughs and poignant family drama that blend tremendously.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2020

Directed by John Wells and written by Tracy Letts based on his play of the same name, August: Osage County is a tour de force in acting on all counts.

| Jan 8, 2020

Several cast members are in fine form, but most of them have the potential to distract rather than homogenize, and thus, Wells seems to have let everyone do what they do best and the result feels like a competition of skill.

| Aug 29, 2019

This story of a family meltdown offers the richest payload of powerhouse female performances we're likely to see all year.

| Aug 7, 2019

Pleasant, it is not.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2019

There's something cathartic about Letts exorcising his own demons through his writing. And when brought to life by such world-class actors, the results are often electrifying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 4, 2019

Slow but bolstered by the scene-chewing relish of Streep and Roberts, August: Osage County tries but fails to be the next great take on American kitchen-sink drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2019

There are so many tonal shifts, big laughs, awkward laughs, long silences, explosions of anger, and cuttingly clever jabs that your head will spin (mine almost spun right off my neck).

| Original Score: 7.6/10 | Apr 3, 2019