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

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 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

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | 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

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

Just "not-horrible" enough, yet are still thoroughly and transcendently boring

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 30, 2013

While a clinical approach doesn't disqualify a movie from being riveting, the straightforward, unflashy style can sometimes be draggy rather than revelatory or engrossing.

| Original Score: 6.2/10 | May 29, 2013

[Desplechin has] come a cropper in this lethargic, self-important psychiatry study, which he himself seems to have directed from the couch.

| Original Score: C- | May 23, 2013

Del Toro and Amalric's many analytic interactions come to feel like arias; Desplechin's films often have this intimately, unsettlingly operatic feel, as if the camera were recording a performance for proscenium at too close a range

| May 23, 2013

This is a superb, engrossing picture, strange in all the right ways, and one I long to see again.

| May 21, 2013

"How much longer do I have to stay here?" he enquires of a nurse at one point. You ask her, Jim, ask for us all.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 18, 2013