Despite all this, Weitz and his camera are infatuated with DeNiro, who is performing more than he is acting in a film that only he and the director don't understand is more suited to the latter...

| Mar 16, 2021

A bleak character study that scrapes by on the strength of its performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2021

a film that plumbs the depths of addiction, poverty, family, and ultimately identity, doesn't pull any punches, and approaches all of these themes from a personal angle that makes them accessible.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 11, 2020

Being Flynn is being bored.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 24, 2019

Being Flynn is unremittingly awful.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

This is one of [Robetr] De Niro's finest performances.

| Sep 18, 2017

I'm still not sure what this is all supposed to be about, save for a bunch of scenes that happened to somebody, sometime.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

DeNiro is more "personality" than actor now.

| Original Score: C | Jun 23, 2013

De Niro has succumbed to the false perception that 'great acting' is synonymous with screaming and yelling every line like your career depended on it.

| Original Score: D | Jun 2, 2013

Being Flynn is too dark to appeal to the faint of heart and too safe to draw in those looking for an honest portrayal of a troubled father-son relationship.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Sep 15, 2012

It's a shame the studio didn't choose to keep the original title of the book in place, Another Bulls**t Night in Suck City would have been quite fitting for the film.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 25, 2012

Eventually, the movie warps in on itself and becomes its own parody: an overly pretentious movie about an overly pretentious writer, which is not very well written at all.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 13, 2012

Absolves Paul Weitz for having made Little Fockers and makes up for most of Robert De Niro's choices in the past few years.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 9, 2012

On the whole, the film feels detached and morose, just like its characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 23, 2012

De Niro's Jonathan wraps himself up in the façade of his fictitious artistry. He's Jake La Motta by way of Blanche DuBois, who can only occasionally depend upon the kindness of strangers.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 23, 2012

De Niro's blustering doesn't help and neither does the sentimental take on his possibly insoluble problems.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2012

It's simply difficult to throw in with the film's reality-if not its essential story, then its details: Being Flynn feels indie art-directed instead of observed.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2012

To his credit, De Niro actually gives a committed performance for a change. But that doesn't mean what it once did.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 19, 2012

...a perfectly watchable adaptation of Flynn's true-life memoir.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2012

It's captured a corner of a my imagination, getting me to think like I haven't in ages, and for all my mixed feelings those are traits I'll happily celebrate now and until the end of time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2012