Tough but worthy.

| Jul 12, 2016

| Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 22, 2007

Twenty minutes or so of cuts would probably have helped the movie pack a more potent punch.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 30, 2007

They ought to have cut both the film and the marriage a little shorter.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 9, 2007

The incisive moments of recognizable humanity, though, are outnumbered by those of awkward obviousness.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 1, 2007

Flannel Pajamas is so gorged with gab it feels like a filibuster.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 1, 2007

Better to rent Scenes From a Marriage, Manhattan or My Dinner With Andre and stay home -- flannel pajamas optional.

| Mar 22, 2007

In his sophomore feature, Lipsky doesn't feel the need to pump the movie with showy visual tricks. You don't even know he's there most of the time, which is probably a compliment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 2, 2007

Flannel Pajamas is a sharply observed dissection of a couple's relationship, from blind date to marriage to difficulties over everything from whether to get a dog to when to have a baby.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 22, 2007

This is all quite fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2007

Maybe Lipsky's been too direct in his screenplay; he makes us feel like informed witnesses to their relationship rather than participants. Which means, we spend most of the movie thinking, just break up already, please.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2007

It's a harsh look at a love that seems good until it isn't any more... and frankly, I got tired of both of these people long before they got tired of each other.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 19, 2007

This is the kind of introspective drama in which a determined pair of young, very fine actors and a strong filmmaker put everything on the line to explore emotional truth wherever it exists.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2007

[Writer/director] Lipsky has something to say about the impossibility of human beings to love each other, but his language is that of an amateur playwright who does not know when he is only repeating cliches.

| Original Score: C | Jan 11, 2007

Both Nicholson and Kirk are terrific actors, but the script limits them and their performances.

Full Review | Dec 5, 2006

Kirk and Nicholson provide solid acting throughout the movie. Lipsky's writing is frequently original. However, the overall sense of this film is that it lacks credibility.

Full Review | Dec 5, 2006

With "Flannel Pajamas" Lipsky has written an excellent off-Broadway play, not a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 2, 2006

[Star Julianne] Nicholson does remarkable work in an unsympathetic role, helped by [director Jeff] Lipsky's fine control of his characters.

| Dec 1, 2006

It's as close to what the disintegration of a real-life relationship looks like as you'll ever see onscreen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Sometimes a movie improves on second viewing and I liked Flannel Pajamas better when I screened it again.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2006