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

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

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

Like Woody Allen, [director Daniel] Burman is a Jewish worrier who covers all present and future bases. He's the most indispensable worrier we have.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2006

A deceptively small film, one whose observations may continue to detonate quietly in your mind after the lights have come up.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2006

[Director] Burman's decision to fill nearly every second of the film with Hendler's voice -- either in dialogue or in narration -- constrains Family Law to the point of view of an indecisive navel-gazer.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Dec 8, 2006

Director-writer Daniel Burman follows the two lawyers through their daily chores. Little of consequence happens, and the lack of drama will keep viewers from caring about the characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 8, 2006

[Director Daniel] Burman tends to focus very tightly on the details of individual identity - religion, nationality, gender. It is all the more striking, then, that his restrained and unassuming films are wise enough to speak to every adult.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2006

An alternately charming and frustrating comic entertainment from Argentine writer-director Daniel Burman.

| Dec 7, 2006

Family Law is well acted, but if Antoine Doinel had been nearly this serene, Truffaut's career would have petered out after three films.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 6, 2006

Low-key without being ho-hum, sexy in a brainy-but-humble way, Hendler is a how-to study in the charismatic power of unembellished screen acting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 5, 2006