The fact that [it] isn't very funny and, like its 80-year-old heroic, long outlives its necessary life, is less important than the fact that the characters frequently react gently or like credible human beings to the script's impossible notions.

| Jan 18, 2013

Simpleminded, but it's fairly inoffensive, at least until Ashby lingers over the concentration-camp serial number tattooed on Gordon's arm. Some things are beyond the reach of whimsy.

| Oct 24, 2007

It is most successful when it keeps to the tone of an insane fairystory set up at the beginning of the movie.

| Jun 24, 2006

[Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon] both are so aggressive, so creepy and off-putting.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 9, 2005

The visual style makes everyone look fresh from the Wax Museum, and all the movie lacks is a lot of day-old gardenias and lilies and roses in the lobby, filling the place with a cloying sweet smell. Nothing more to report today.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

This black comedy pairs a 79-year-old swinger with a suicidal 20-year-old. They go to funerals and philosophize together in between Cort's humorously staged suicide attempts.

| Mar 10, 2003

They remain among cinema's most disconcerting odd couples.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2001

Marked by a few good gags, but marred by a greater preponderance of sophomoric, overdone and mocking humor.

| Feb 13, 2001