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

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

A movie with no reason to exist apart from setting into motion an otherwise interesting cast, led by Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 5, 2018

The film... crosses a line - between engaging idiosyncrasy and floundering improbability, amusing and cringeworthy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2018

Plummer and Farmiga are great together. If only they'd been given material to suit their skills.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2018

[Plummer] is incapable of mediocrity, but damn if the script doesn't draw him close to the edge.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 29, 2018

That's the easy, low-grade charm of "Boundaries." Like the effects of Grandpa's weed, its performances loosen up - and at times even find the profundity in - a stiff and sometimes silly tale.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2018

There's real love in that routine, and that's where Farmiga and Feste shine.

| Jun 28, 2018

Every so often, writer-director Shana Feste will drop in a line or a situation that doesn't feel like something she picked up from Indie Screenwriting Tropes 101, and you feel yourself being drawn into the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2018

Farmiga is too imaginative and keen for the material, and watching the elegant Plummer prattle away about his adult diapers grows wincingly weary too fast for comfort.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 25, 2018

There's an unpredictability in Plummer's performance that keeps this dramedy on its toes even as its inevitably gets more and more predictable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2018

Being in the presence of Plummer these days is always time well spent.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2018

A road movie starring Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga, two actors I am willing to see in just about anything. Because of them, Boundaries, which might have been cooked up by a screenwriting program called RoadMovie, is halfway tolerable.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 22, 2018

Boundaries is earnest in way that partly makes up for the overbroad characters and stale setup.

| Jun 22, 2018

It's hard to recall a recent movie with more exclamatory dialogue than "Boundaries" - "I know how much you must hate me!" "You can't live without being a victim!" - and less in the way of actual emotional revelation.

| Jun 21, 2018

Self-satisfied and too slick by half, "Boundaries" projects a sheen of artifice that deflects any genuine engagement with the story.

| Jun 21, 2018

It all bumps along, as road trips do, through silliness and boredom and occasional, unexpected charm. But Feste's story never really gets the rhythms right.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2018

One wishes Feste had checked to see if there was any gas left in the tank of the road-trip genre before committing to its well-worn byways.

| Jun 19, 2018

"Boundaries" fails to draw a boundary with itself - going on too long, adding too many over-the-top characters and shying away from the real issue at hand: How can Laura draw a boundary and be respected by the men in her life?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 19, 2018

Boundaries clearly wants to approximate the messy rhythms of real life. But its way into this material is constant oscillation between broad antics and hopped-up domestic drama.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 19, 2018