Simply put, this is a comedian showing he has more than one voice and the complements do not end there.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2024

If Kevin Kline doesn't break your heart a few times in this film, you might be due for an emotional tune up.

| May 7, 2020

This material might've worked better as sketches in an omnibus film.

| Apr 3, 2020

Despite the unevenness, Martin's cinematic exploration of empathy, loss, and father-son relationships makes for compelling viewing.

| Mar 30, 2020

A film that lightly handles some very heavy and very important themes. Love, loss and longing all make an appearance -- never weighting the film but elevating it even further as they're all such universal experiences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Dean is an entertaining little independent movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2019

Dean is a flawed movie that sometimes flubs implementing the same quirky visually stylistic touches that match the personality of the young man himself, but it's also an engaging dramedy with a striking sense of authenticity

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2017

Mildly amusing and nicely acted by the supporting players, Dean nonetheless doesn't feel like a big-screen breakthrough for Martin, who doesn't dig deeply enough into the movie's most interesting element: undigested grief.

| Aug 29, 2017

It may not be the first movie you run off to the theater to see - probably not on a first date, anyway - but its high points are high enough to justify a look.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2017

A touching dramedy about the different styles of grief.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2017

It's about imperfections and dealing with the moment, and how the aftermath of death helps shape the way we handle life.

| Original Score: B | Jun 16, 2017

It ends a sweeter, more meaningful film than it begins.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 14, 2017

Martin crafts an amusing vehicle for his usual mix of self-deprecation and social awkwardness, while also poking fun at technology, boorish millennials and other absurdities.

| Jun 9, 2017

Dean's triumph is that it feels very much like a definitive statement of a young artist, much in the way Garden State did for Zach Braff.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 9, 2017

The lessons that Dean learns are pat and predictable, but this disarmingly winsome film is comfortable in the knowledge that universal truths can be the hardest things for people to discover for themselves.

| Original Score: B | Jun 5, 2017

[Demetri Martin] makes the transition into feature filmmaking as writer, director and star with just the right blend of humor and heartbreak.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2017

It is a brilliantly accomplished directing debut and never goes for cheap laughs or obvious plot contrivances.

| Jun 5, 2017

Dean is not, as it purports to be in nearly all of its marketing material, a "comedy about tragedy." It's more like... a middling post-mumblecore dramedy about Demetri Martin wish-fulfilling himself into bed with Gillian Jacobs. Put that on a poster.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 3, 2017

Martin's script knows but one thing -- irony. It's his lifeblood, his shtick. But it's also his downfall.

| Original Score: C | Jun 3, 2017

It all plays out in painstakingly milquetoast fashion.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 2, 2017