This intelligent movie becomes a gentle reproof of prejudice and ignorance, and I wish I could find some excitement in it.

| Sep 22, 2014

Honestly, it's hard to see why "Jimmy P." was ever made.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 7, 2014

It may not always treat psychology with the sophistication it deserves, but it at least acknowledges that it's an imperfect method of personal understanding.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 6, 2014

Avoiding the usual therapy-drama story beats, Desplechin has made a densely satisfying drama about Freud, racism, and sympathy in its largest sense.

| Mar 6, 2014

A fascinating cross-cultural experiment that eventually runs itself into the ground.

| Feb 28, 2014

In warming quite a lot to Jimmy P, it's possible that I've gravitated to what Desplechin's long-term admirers might regard as the wrong film.

| Feb 21, 2014

The pain and sadness of Picard's life are perversely relegated to another time and place, one the film can only visit from the distance of his recollections. By the end, [Arnaud] Desplechin makes him known thoroughly, but not vividly.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Feb 20, 2014

The fine lead performances by Benicio del Toro and Mathieu Amalric are the highlights of the artfully crafted, fact-based drama Jimmy P., which tries (sometimes in vain) to make psychotherapy cinematically intriguing.

| Original Score: 7.7/10 | Feb 18, 2014

The sterile process that the film is fixated on is admirable, but Jimmy P. rarely gets at anything engrossing or interesting about its characters.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 16, 2014

The movie offers the most psychologically complex screen portrait of a Native American character in at least twenty years, probably more.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 14, 2014

[A] ruminative, gentle and absorbing new film.

| Feb 13, 2014

Jimmy P. tells the more-or-less-true story of two men's friendship and one man's recovery. Beneath that, though, is a meditation on exile and lost identity in which very different people share remarkably similar circumstances.

| Feb 13, 2014

It's mysteriously interesting, almost a Rorschach Test, with little details sprinkled throughout that we may or may not catch. It's open to your interpretation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2014

Because it is so unabashedly Freudian, the movie also seems old-fashioned and often just dull.

| Feb 13, 2014

Benicio Del Toro's sad, penetrating eyes loom heavy in this intellectually intriguing but sadly dull biopic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2014

Solid work from stars Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric lubricate the movie's hunt for understanding, but overlength tends to erase the effort's achievements in the end.

| Original Score: C | Feb 13, 2014

The film is nearly devoid of the sense of mystery and wonder that usually permeates Desplechin's work, and features only a meager handful of his signature expressionistic interludes.

| Original Score: C | Feb 13, 2014

'Tell a dream, lose a reader" is the Henry James advice that the makers of "Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" should have heeded.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 12, 2014

The French director overcomes melodramatic tendencies in the early part of the movie to settle into something more subtle and interesting -- the tte--tte between two excellent actors fully inhabiting their roles.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2014

Seems to struggle in making its interesting ideas apparent, leaving them stranded beneath the dry surface of an otherwise ordinary procedural.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2013