Max Rose is a movie that scoffs at the notion of aging gracefully.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2018

Max Rose is a good farewell to cinema and the world for Jerry Lewis... [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 9, 2017

Max Rose adds little to the end-of-life theme, but it offers old-timers in a realistic look at old age, old love, and family affairs.

| Aug 29, 2017

There's no getting around a script that's a bunch of manipulative claptrap.

| Aug 25, 2017

[Max Rose] gives [Lewis] a chance to dwell in a favorite realm, the world of hurt, betrayal and rancor.

| Jan 1, 2017

Seeing Lewis act again is just about the only reason to watch writer-director Daniel Noah's otherwise unremarkable indie drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 22, 2016

Jerry Lewis deserves a better homage than this.

| Sep 22, 2016

The script is replete with filler inserted in the name of "real life": bad jokes and silly riddles, spontaneous songs, and improvised scenes in which conversations go around in circles.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 22, 2016

It inhabits a world frivolous American moviegoers seldom visit: The last way station before death, where the will and body and memory all begin to fail together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2016

The sleek, sinister, brilliant talk show host Jerry Langford of "King of Comedy" is also a distant, burning memory: his Max Rose is a figure of ash, Lewis' watery blue eyes the one expressive, sorrowful, sad-clown trait that both characters share.

| Sep 18, 2016

The stakes of the premise simply aren't enough to carry this story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 16, 2016

Max Rose, and Jerry Lewis, deserve a better movie than this one.

| Original Score: C | Sep 16, 2016

The movie gains resonance from its look at what may be the final years of a movie legend.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2016

[A] maudlin wallow in geriatric grief.

| Original Score: D- | Sep 15, 2016

The problems with Max Rose are legion, and nearly all of them reside in its jumbled script and lethargic pacing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 15, 2016

The plodding, maudlin Max Rose's best moments rely heavily on the audience's familiarity with Jerry's persona, and while it's great to see him busting out some of his old schtick... it doesn't fit the character at all.

| Sep 15, 2016

Fascinating at certain moments, especially when Lewis is exploring his character's grief and bitterness, it still feels like a work in progress.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2016

Director Daniel Noah aims at being sad, heartwarming or even humorous, by turns, but almost every scene feels forced and predictable ...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 14, 2016

Daniel Noah's Max Rose is a sobering, powerful examination of grief and loss made essential by the casting of 87-year old Jerry Lewis as the titular character.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 12, 2016

A maudlin, ham-fisted dud...

| Sep 8, 2016