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

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

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

A maudlin, ham-fisted dud...

| Sep 8, 2016

A bummed-out, unfunny Lewis seems to be the main selling point for this dreary drama.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 8, 2016

Noah takes a fatal decision to trade snap for mush, and the movie only stirs in the final twenty minutes ...

| Sep 5, 2016

Max Rose has the superficiality of a student film inexplicably bursting with famous people in it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 3, 2016

Max Rose might not be up to Lewis, but he gives it everything he's got in a quietly devastating performance. You can't take your eyes off him.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2016

Old-timers bring their decades of experience to the under-written script.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2016

[A] soggy, fragile feature about love, death, marriage and memories [that] might never have made it to theaters were it not for its star, Jerry Lewis.

| Sep 1, 2016

Two decades after his last film, the legendary Jerry Lewis performs a truly unfortunate encore playing an elderly widower in writer-director Daniel Noah's morose and thoroughly unconvincing drama.

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

The elderly Jerry Lewis cuts a more poignant and vulnerable figure than Max Rose deserves.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 1, 2016

A tender showcase for a different kind of Jerry Lewis that utilizes the strengths and frailties of a 90-year-old show business survivor as few films have ever done.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2016

Every scene feels like a soft, clichd graze over a greeting card emotion rather than an organically felt component to a larger meaningful story.

| Aug 30, 2016

The final scenes offer unconvincing revelations, reassurances, and reconciliations.

| Aug 30, 2016

It occasionally and promisingly suggests an obsessive and free-associative paean to regret.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 28, 2016