Duane Hopwood digs into the soul of its title character with a patience rarely found in contemporary films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2006

[A] remarkably accomplished indie movie ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2006

Visually dreary and not especially illuminating, Duane Hopwood can't quite get where it must have wanted to go.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 31, 2006

... this downbeat indie drama gives the leads a few excellent scenes together, and they acquit themselves credibly. But there's also a fair amount of wilted comedy from the stock supporting characters ...

| Aug 31, 2006

Schwimmer demonstra uma enorme sensibilidade ao evitar qualquer tipo de exagero ou caricatura ao viver seu personagem alcolatra, retratando-o como um homem triste e gentil que no enxerga o prprio vcio.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2006

A mellow-yet-effective character study that exhibits some real poignancy and delivers a stunningly good performance by Friends star David Schwimmer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2006

[The film is] suffused with hangdog dreariness, equivalent to a unsoled shoe treading rainwater.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2005

Duane Hopwood is a crock from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Anthony is as upbeat as Duane is down. The character works so well as a counterpoint, you wish the film would abandon Duane altogether and follow Anthony on his moronic misadventures.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2005

It's just very authentic, very real. Everything that happens here you believe it.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2005

Surprisingly amiable for all its bleak tidings.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2005

Schwimmer's fine, but Duane Hopwood is flat and uninvolving for long stretches.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 17, 2005

It's a mixed but basically likable little indie picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2005

The movie is a wise and realistic portrait of the disease, showing the drunk not as a colorful or tragic character, but simply as a sad man whose days occasionally contain moments of joy and hope.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 17, 2005

An unusually memorable picture of one man's bad time.

| Nov 15, 2005

The movie is understated enough to let the emotional, and sometimes comical, story tell itself, with no over-the-top dialogue, nor worse, overacting.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2005

A fairly dreadful melodrama drenched in self-pity.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2005

Loaded with unoriginal ideas, weak comedic concepts, and underwhelming emotional climaxes, the movie is the definition of bland.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2005

Writer-director Matt Mulhern confidently anchors his drama-comedy about an alcoholic Atlantic City pit boss with good writing and sharp dialogue.

| Oct 29, 2005