A portrait of auto satisfaction, and when viewed from the outside, exists in a comforting paradise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2022

The weaving in of animation is an unnecessary gimmick that adds nothing to the film's presentation and, in fact, only serves to mute its emotional impact even further.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

The pressure of real-time secrecy gives this documentary the tension of a thriller.

| Apr 27, 2020

Devoid of any qualities that could elevate the film above anything more than a well-crafted home video.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 19, 2019

The film is well done. But it is a late arrival in a decade-long parade of dysfunctional-family indie films.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 22, 2010

It's a fascinating plea, on Kleine's part, to make sense of the many cul-de-sacs and hidden passageways in her mother's life. She doesn't succeed, but you have the distinct feeling that she couldn't have.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2010

Very funny, and surprisingly touching, Phyllis and Harold finds romance and poetry out there in Long Island -- accomplishments indeed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2010

A portrait of a marriage that epitomizes "lives of quiet desperation."

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2010

One of the most profound movies about married life seen on screen in some time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2010

Phyllis and Harold has extraordinary breadth and depth and has been made with wit, compassion and imagination, and it reflects the complexity of life itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2010

An engaging, earnest tale bungled through the intrusions of the filmmaker.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2010

Everything you wanted to know about a marriage and probably a few things you could have done without.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 11, 2010

Sports a talented eye for cinematic images but forgoes much documentarian value in its general refusal to address these matters from a more naturally candid state.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2010

Why someone would want to lay bare their parents' marital issues for the world to see is beyond me, but that doesn't detract from the film's insightfulness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 21, 2010

Their very middle-class ordinariness and conventionality makes this an archetypal look beneath the stereotypes of a generation who felt pressured to conform in the suburbs.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 20, 2010

A creative and unsettling documentary that reveals how yearning can be both a burden and a blessing to those caught in its grasp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2010

Engrossing, sad and heartbreaking.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 19, 2010

There's a broad range of deeply personal knowledge refracted through Cindy Kleine's lens that encompasses generational shifts of perspective. "Phyllis and Harold" is a bold and audacious winner.

| Original Score: B | Feb 19, 2010

An impossibly self-involved portrait of a union far more commonplace than its offspring seem to believe.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2010

My only question: Why does Kleine -- who's married to Andre Gregory of My Dinner With Andre fame -- think that anybody outside her family gives a damn?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 19, 2010