Family Law has a sweet sense of how families try to interact and connect... There's nothing big about this film but it's filled with small joys and insights.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 18, 2007

It's a nice film, offering a few smiles and very likable performances. It could stand to have its themes fleshed out a little more, though.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 2, 2007

Full of subtle dark humor that won't make you bend with laughter but certainly may cause you to giggle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2007

...a charming and low-key effort from Argentina which was their contender for the foreign language Oscar, though it didn't get nominated.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2007

Burman based this comedy-drama on his experiences as a new father, and the results are warmly observational but slightly navel-gazing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2007

Drastically overplotted and overwritten and could have used some editing to make it a tighter, more modest character piece.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2007

A subtly perceptive charmer that was Argentina's entry for a best foreign film Oscar and might have been nominated in a less competitive year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 23, 2007

The lessons of this slight human comedy are not groundbreaking, but they do strike a warmly universal chord.

| Feb 23, 2007

Every movie is made up of certain nuts and bolts, and in Family Law they seem, quite frankly, a little loose.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 16, 2007

This observant little movie does delicately touch on those unspoken assumptions that animate so many filial relationships. And the wry, soft-spoken tone is a welcome one amid the dysfunctional burlesques Hollywood routinely extrudes.

| Feb 15, 2007

With its slack plotting, the film itself feels as aimless as its main character.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 3, 2007

Family Law offers a sweet, understated perspective on the psychological dance of wariness, hope and acceptance that occurs between many a father and son.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2007

Family Law [is] one of the best examinations of [fathers and sons] ever committed to celluloid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2006

This delicate, bittersweet comedy prepares you for an eruption of high drama that never arrives.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A deft, witty and emotionally rewarding study of a thirtysomething man in his roles as father and son.

| Dec 29, 2006

Particularly good at the tiny details that become recognition points in daily patterns.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2006

[Director Daniel] Burman's beguiling tribute to his Jewish father -- or, for all I know, the one he wishes he had -- is warm and deep enough to give humanism a good name.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2006

A pleasant, crisply paced look at a wary character.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2006

Admirably low-key, yet [director Daniel] Burman's relaxed approach becomes a liability -- everything goes down smoothly but leaves one hungry for something more substantial.

| Dec 29, 2006

Family Law, from Argentina, is a very articulate comedy about fatherhood and marriage.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2006