Falls short. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2020

Binoche takes the fairly one-note character of Marie and allows her to blossom.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

A charming, though occasionally off-target -- and consistently tempo-challenged -- romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 9, 2009

The most cloying family meeting since A Very Brady Christmas

| Aug 27, 2009

Una comedia romántica muy menor, predecible e intrascendente que desaprovecha por completo el talento de un buen elenco. Una lástima.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2009

What's wrong with Steve Carrell? His is one of the quickest falls from comedy to crap since Chevy Chase.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 23, 2009

A creature made of gingerbread and hugs.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 17, 2009

I prefer a little more dysfunction in my dysfunctional family comedies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2008

Carell and Binoche are great fun to watch, doing just what the movie requires (not much, as scripted by Pierce Gardner and director Peter Hedges) and then some.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Carell seems to be at his best when he is put in awkward situations and is forced to make a fool out of himself, and there are plenty of those moments in Dan in Real Life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2008

Alas, [Hedges'] forays behind the camera with Pieces of April and now Dan in Real Life indicate he's got Sundance intentions but a Hallmark Channel soul.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

Writer/ director Peter Hedges likes to touch on deeper emotional truths, but he doesn't have the courage to really probe his characters' struggles in a meaningful way.

Full Review | Original Score: 69/100 | Mar 26, 2008

Because it touches on the universal themes of loss and love so honestly, it is a film that feels authentic even in its many contrivances.

| Mar 26, 2008

...ultimately succumbs to an egregious emphasis on inauthentic elements...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2008

I wound up enjoying most of what I saw, despite its familiarity and predictability. The film's got a good heart.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 7, 2008

Okay for forgiving romance fans, and a maybe-see for the rest of us.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2008

It attempts to take a Three's A Company situation and mix it together with a widower trying to raise three children. This is not cool.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 4, 2008

Dan in Real Life is a film willing to admit that love is messy and that family, no matter how strained, is still the most perfect cauldron within which to ferment all those things that make life worth living...

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008