Despite its rough turns and bumpy exposition, Le Week-End is absolutely a trip worth taking, full of moving moments and well-earned laughs.

| Jan 6, 2015

A loosely structured but acutely observed relationships movie with a wide streak of painful comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2015

All of this elevates Le Week-End to the level of intelligent film without sacrificing humor, bite, and beauty, all of which it has in scads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 6, 2015

At turns charming and subtly complex, Le Week-End is no grand affair to remember, but it's a fine enough showcase for two winning talents and the sort of mature take on romance we don't see nearly often enough.

| Original Score: B | Jan 6, 2015

Before long the movie -- as neatly constructed as it is -- isn't really behaving like a movie, but more like life, as it's lived by a fractious pair of empty nesters who find themselves at a crossroads.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2015

As this pair mooch about town, Broadbent and Duncan negotiate their transitions in mood with a style that effortlessly conveys the sense of an entire life unfolding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2015

This is a beautifully executed, fearlessly truthful and droll film on the emotional politics of reinvention.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 6, 2015

It proves again that films made for grown-ups can be more nimble-footed and fresh-faced than anything aimed at the youth market.

| Jan 6, 2015

Once the characters start explaining the sources of their unhappiness, the drama becomes less compelling, largely because their problems seem far from insurmountable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2014

By its ambiguous yet hopeful end, we're at one with Nick and Meg: Sometimes, you just have to dance. Somehow, you go on.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2014

[It] lacks a solid plot or even much structure -- yet it works beautifully.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 8, 2014

I won't spoil the ending, nor will I deny its playful charms.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2014

Not exactly a breezy getaway, the film visits the sites, and drops down on rougher terrain, too.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2014

This extra-dry mix of drama and comedy is supposed to reflect the complexities of real life; but as a movie, it's so schematic and schizoid, it leaves us scratching our berets.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2014

Wisely, director Roger Michell ("Notting Hill") does not burden Hanif Kureishi's literate, witty and emotionally nuanced script and the impeccable performances with an attempt at personal style.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2014

Director Roger Michell ("Notting Hill") has the good sense to step back and let Broadbent and Duncan work their magic on Hanif Kureishi's script. They don't disappoint.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 27, 2014

An alternately prickly and knowing tone poem to desire and disappointment whose light touch belies far deeper, darker human understandings.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2014

A nuanced romance for grown-ups.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2014

Sad, sweet, dark, funny and possibly even redemptive.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 20, 2014

This film doesn't feel obliged to pick a winner or lob easy answers; it aims to observe, with humor and humanity, with penetration and without oversimplifying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2014