Even before Boundaries' tired plot grinds into motion, your patience may already be worn thin by the introduction of only the first of its many grating characters.

| Dec 10, 2020

Boundaries may not exactly cross any new ones. Yet, it still works as a piece of heartfelt escapism thanks to its simplistic storyline.

| Oct 8, 2020

It isn't that Boundaries is a long movie, not at all. It's that every moment feels like a quirky, twee cliché, straining so hard to be cute and never feeling remotely authentic.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

The father's chicanery is the brightest spot in a screenplay that makes the heroine a shrill stooge for everyone else's agenda as the protagonists bicker their way to self-discovery and mutual regard.

| Mar 4, 2020

Writer-director Chloé Robichaud films in purposefully icy grays, but the film falls victim to its own drabness. Her characters are barely more than archetypes.

| Feb 27, 2020

The story runs a fairly predictable course, but it is foremost Christopher Plummer who is the raison d'être for the film. It's not his best, but he's great. With hundreds of roles over his career, that's not saying much.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 17, 2019

[Shana] Feste keeps her story bubbling along, breezy and smart, heavy at times, but never morose.

| Oct 17, 2019

Boundaries is a disappointing experience that could have been much more, and a shameful waste of a good cast. No reason to take this trip.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Boundaries is one of those rare films that combines humor and drama in an almost seamless way, so it feels both light and heavy at the same time.

| Mar 2, 2019

Shana Feste's pot-slinging cross-country road-trip dramedy deals in paternal disappointment and familial reconciliation but remains a bit high on its own supply.

| Original Score: C | Nov 1, 2018

A brilliant sense of humor to go along with an uncommonly sharp observations, making the study of politics on a number of fronts, as much gender-related as dealing with governance, a provocative delight from start to finish.

| Nov 1, 2018

I found myself laughing quite a bit and felt great at the end of the journey. The comedy isn't trying to get you all up in your feelings, it just wants you to enjoy the ride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2018

It's predictable, at times is a little too quirky, and sags a bit in the middle act. Yet Boundaries works, largely because of the cast

| Original Score: B- | Oct 25, 2018

Writer-director Shana Heste's film never transcends its clichés, wasting fine actors on a screenplay that whipsaws between broad comedy and shrill drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2018

While some complex themes like abandonment and redemption are touched upon lightly, there's not much room for anything else to breathe with Farmiga's exaggeratedly neurotic character overshadowing some of the more interesting relationships."

| Original Score: C | Jul 18, 2018

Boundaries keeps the syrup on medium, and Plummer looks like he's having a ball. If you have a penchant for broken wing syndrome, you may want to let this one into your life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2018

It's the best thing Feste has made to date, which isn't saying much, but she shows newfound interest in emotional authenticity here.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 11, 2018

The writing is smart and funny, the scenery along the Pacific coast is glorious, and the performances are all topnotch. It was a labor of love for the director, and her close connection to the material is apparent.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 11, 2018

Boundaries is almost uniformly lowbrow, with a weak script that severely tests the likeability of Farmiga and Plummer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 11, 2018

...As much as you may spar with every moment of cliche in this oddly familiar family yarn, the struggle is futile. The movie simply has too much humanity, and too much charm, to pass it off as a Little Miss Sunshine with shelter animals.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 11, 2018