Throughout Sixty Six, Klahr unleashes a dazzling array of visual ideas, deftly combined with sounds, silence, or music and all in the service of what he calls the film's "pop associational mindscape."

| Feb 14, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Cleaves too closely to the pattern set out by more original films with similar subject matter. Its obvious distinctions of time and place come through in clever details, but these don't seem to serve Weiland's autobiography so much as situate it into a fa

| Aug 8, 2009

A film that tries too hard and wastes a cast of skilled veterans and talented newcomers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 14, 2008

Offbeat, nostalgic, wonderful.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2008

Since Mr. Weiland himself had grown up in a Jewish section of North London, he was able to include many details of his own childhood.

| Oct 23, 2008

It's labeled a 'true-ish story', and the results are cheeky fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: B- | Oct 18, 2008

Sixty Six is also about accepting parents with all their frailties, coming to terms with the unfairness of life, and finding a way to switch the focus to the wonders we do have to celebrate.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 12, 2008

The story line sounds plain and simple, but the movie is enlightened by Bernie's impassioned narration and by a gallery of small comic details.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2008

Weiland has given us something we can cheer and feel good about.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2008

[Director] Weiland pours so much heart into his autobiographically 'true-ish' story that accessibility is a nonissue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2008

...the sort of Jewish film that the whole family can enjoy without feeling they're fulfilling an obligation to see it.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2008

...a charming coming-of-age period piece about the trials and tribulations one young boy must face in his quest to become a man.

| Original Score: B | Aug 19, 2008

Weiland's occasional heavy-handedness is more than redeemed by the lightness of his cast.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 15, 2008

It does cast Helena Bonham Carter against type as a devoted mother and housewife, and, for soccer nuts, integrate pristine footage from the '66 Cup.

| Aug 15, 2008

Eddie Marsan, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Rea and DR. WHO's Catherine Tate in a dramedy about a bar mitzvah vs. the World Cup in London

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 8, 2008