hanks to Susan Seidelman for reminding us that romantic comedy is suitable for any population or age group...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2006

Seidelman maintains the narrow path between ridicule and dignity in a movie that dishes out humour even-handedly, but spares the characters total humiliation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Replaces one set of clichs with another, and does what all lame comedies do to young and old alike: It robs them of their humanity and makes them cute.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 3, 2006

There's no character in the group who doesn't ooze good-natured charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2006

Unsatisfying comedy-drama, which features a cheesy golden-oldies soundtrack that feels even more packaged than the dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2006

More a series of anecdotes than an insightful dramedy and relies too much on absurd coincidences and needless sitcom-style lying.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2006

Not a very good movie, but it somehow manages to be enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2006

This funny, nervy, and pointedly unrated geriatric sex comedy is both enhanced and occasionally limited by being targeted at baby boomers.

| Aug 25, 2006

While it occasionally strains to be cute and borders on sitcom, many issues addressed will ring true to the over-65 crowd, its target audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2006

The script, co-written by Seidelman, based on her mother Florence's adventures in a butterfly-balloted suburban retirement community, feels like it was written by Neil Simon on a bad comb-over day.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2006

These characters' longing for affection and their fear of loneliness are both painfully specific and soothingly universal: We are all Boynton Beach.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2006

The actors seem to be having fun, but the gags are all well past the mandatory retirement age.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2006

The Boynton Beach Club won't make anyone happy to grow old, but it sure works hard at providing the counterintuitive lesson to our youth-nuts culture: It's okay to age. Life doesn't end when your spouse goes ka-flop and your chin goes ker-plop.

| Aug 17, 2006

The ladies at the center of this enjoyable comedy are vibrant, opinionated, sassy, vulnerable and a lot of fun.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2006

The script is longer on good intentions than on good dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2006

An almost oppressively gentle romantic comedy for the Golden Girls set.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 17, 2006

Len Cariou is touching as a widower whose pain has left him in a daze, Joseph Bologna has a great speech about senior bachelorhood, and Dyan Cannon, at 69, is still a flower.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 9, 2006

You might be excused for speculating that it is really a high school romantic comedy whose teenage characters are played by their grandparents.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2006

A lively and poignant comedy with lots of laughs and juicy roles for a roster of seasoned performers who should be seen more often.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2006

While Seidelman deserves considerable credit for making the rare romantic comedy about seniors, it's a shame the movie itself is as bland as a low-sodium diet.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 4, 2006