Zaks knows enough not to get in the way of his three superb stars, who put on a display of emotional fireworks that is lovely to behold.

| Mar 2, 2018

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

The performances are overwhelmed by cinematography so gorgeous and distracting it makes the drama seem like just so much wheel spinning.

| Feb 8, 2010

It's all plinky-plink pianos and mewing oboes, trying to jerk those tears a little too hard. No, a lot too hard. The music is awful. Stupendously bad.

| Feb 8, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2007

Based on a play by Scott McPherson's who died of AIDS, it's impossible to watch the well-acted film (particularly Diane Keaton, who should get an Oscar nod) without thinking of its themees: the various approaches to love and the strength of family bonds

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Dec 26, 2006

Streep gives her most credible blue-collar performance to date; Keaton sidesteps saintliness to mix vulnerability and small heroics.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2004

Powerhouse casting and a heartbreaking history make the screen version of Marvin's Room more memorable than it otherwise would be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003

Any movie with Meryl Streep is an occasion, but when you add Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hume Cronyn and Gwen Verdon, you've got an embarrassment of riches.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

There is a core of substance in Marvin's Room, and persuasive acting to back it up. Which makes it a special pity that the filmmakers didn't trust viewers to have the necessary intelligence to figure that out for themselves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2001

It is of higher class than any made for 온라인카지노추천 melodrama but falls short of being the next Steel Magnolias or Awakenings. Great actors do what they can in a simple and largely unaffecting story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Marvin's Room seems to exist primarily to road-test every one of your emotions.

| Jan 1, 2000

Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Now and then, a scene will hit you in the gut, such as when Streep restyles Keaton's chemo wig. When sentiment is this honest, it's not hard to swallow.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Dec 20, 1996