To see Dinklage bring such humanity and pathos to such a complexly unhappy character was the most profound aspect of the film.

| Feb 28, 2019

This fine HBO-produced biopic of the late Herve Villechaize has been a passion project for Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage for several years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2018

Villechaize as written is a glorious part - poignant as he wrestles with the limitations placed on him by others and infuriating as he spurns the help of those trying to save him from himself - even if it was far less fun in real life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2018

Dinklage is superb, not just peeling back Villechaize layer by layer, but conveying simultaneously a man who was manipulative and aggressive...but also lonely and vulnerable and plain sad.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2018

Gervasi steers clear of farcical intent, which surprises, instead trying to find the strangeness and sincerity in this meeting of broken men.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 25, 2018

My Dinner with Hervé cannot make a straight-faced claim that Villechaize was an important actor or significant cultural figure, so its own significance depends on the star's charisma, which lends the proceedings a simple poignance.

| Oct 23, 2018

It's a compelling story made more poignant by the fact that it's told by Dinklage, a performer who seems to be the exact opposite of Villechaize.

| Oct 23, 2018

The resulting film - funny, lurid and desperately sad - is a remarkably three-dimensional portrait of a man dismissed as a pop-culture punchline.

| Oct 23, 2018

This is based on writer/director Sacha Gervasi's own encounter with the actor shortly before his death in 1993, and his affection for the mercurial little diva poignantly shines through.

| Oct 22, 2018

What's left are two dudes with varying degrees of moral disrepair shouting at each other across the Hollywood Hills. That's not enough to hold up an entire feature, or even a good dinner conversation.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 22, 2018

Mawkish and unsophisticated, My Dinner With Hervé would probably be too trite to watch if it weren't for Dinklage.

| Oct 22, 2018

But Dinklage, like Dornan, manages to convey a fully dimensional person despite the skipping of narrative steps. He is a remarkable actor.

| Oct 22, 2018

Dinklage excels in a very difficult role to pull off while Dornan keeps pace as his reluctant Boswell. Their love story, is both an entertaining romp and a cautionary tale.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 22, 2018

[Dinklage's] remarkable wordless reaction is at once sheepish, knowing, proud and embarrassed. Like a well-shot arrow, that instant of self-awareness pierces the uneven narrative, straight to the broken heart.

| Oct 19, 2018

The premise is a good one -- two seemingly opposite yet strikingly similar men meet, and then meet, as in changing one another's perspectives.

| Original Score: 7.7/10 | Oct 19, 2018

Engaging, funny, insightful, and in possession of Dinklage's best work since The Station Agent, My Dinner With Hervé is a reservation one shouldn't pass up.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 19, 2018

Peter Dinklage gives a memorable and moving showing as the very sad and regretful Villechaize. He may even be an Emmy lock already.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Oct 19, 2018

The jokey-sounding title does a bit of a disservice to My Dinner With Herve, an HBO movie worth seeing solely for Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage's portrayal of Herve Villechaize.

| Oct 19, 2018

But the film is mostly a dance between Dinklage and Dornan, who rises to the occasion and gives the best performance of his career as a man struggling to hang on to his sobriety even as he's dragged through a hell of Los Angeles.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 19, 2018

A paint-by-numbers biopic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2018