Pacino's buoyant self-mockery goes a long way towards redeeming the actor, who's on genial and winning form.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2015

We sense an actor rediscovering the less frenzied energies that complemented his relatively rare furies when a young man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2015

Pacino is good company, keeping his more mannered Pacinoisms in check, but none of it feels like a stretch for him.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2015

Return to sender.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 28, 2015

It's an encouraging premise, and one which is squandered in every way imaginable by this weedy and entirely second-guessable comic drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 28, 2015

Danny is a role tailor-made for Pacino at this stage in his career, one that enables him both to indulge in some very hammy scene-stealing, but also to show his character's vulnerability and essential decency.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2015

He is is infinitely watchable, but Al Pacino's decision to star in the schmaltzfest of Danny Collins was a mistake.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 28, 2015

Hugely, irresistibly enjoyable, with star chemistry to spare, genuine laughs and tears, and the bonus of apt Lennon songs on the soundtrack.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2015

There's nothing resembling a surprise in this movie, but its simple tune works due to the quality of the performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2015

One of the things that partly excuses the movie's mush is that it's a kind of musical.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 10, 2015

Danny Collins is the cinematic equivalent of a well-sung easy rock tune, enjoyably light and bouncy, with some darker notes hidden within the chords.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2015

For his directorial debut, Fogelman puts all the right people together, and what's more, gets a performance out of Pacino that's one of his best-ever comic turns.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2015

Pacino's exuberance rescues Dan Fogelman's directing debut from the schematic snares in Fogelman's script.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2015

It's never dull to watch pros like Pacino, Bening, Plummer, Garner and Cannavale interact - this is dream casting - and the film makes the most of that, along with a pleasingly comprehensive Lennon soundtrack.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2015

Comedy, pathos, and some schmaltzy couplets about the changing seasons follow forthwith.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2015

Like its hero, the movie is flawed, but hard to resist.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2015

You might be forgiven for mistaking the film for an extended Holiday Inn commercial.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2015

The lesson of this likable little movie is that it's never too late to reclaim your integrity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2015

There's a kind of modest American comedy that's so keenly done that you don't bother resisting. All the details feel exactly right for that particular story and those characters. It just works. Right away, you can tell that Danny Collins is working.

| Mar 27, 2015

Legendary as Al Pacino's skills are, he wouldn't be the first actor I'd cast to play a 70ish pop star who still fills mid-sized arenas some 40 years after he last charted a hit single. Yet Al Pacino sells the heck out of his performance as Danny Collins.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2015