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

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| 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate its uncondescending fondness for the claustrophobic warmth of family life among working-class people apprehensively inching their way toward upward mobility.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2008

Sixty Six may find a niche audience, but instead of depicting a boy's first steps toward manhood -- ceremony aside -- it turns into an uninvolving portrait of self-absorption.

| Aug 6, 2008

I think it's a very heartfelt story, but we get the same thing over and over again.

Full Review | Aug 4, 2008

The direction of this autobiographical tale by Paul Weiland (whose lengthy rap sheet runs all the way from Leonard Part 6 to Made of Honor) is less than subtle.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2008

A dolorous comedy that leans heavily, if inoffensively, on ethnic stereotypes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2008

Like Running with Scissors or an exceptionally cruel episode of The Wonder Years, Paul Weiland's whimsical and eye-poppingly bright comedy is shot through with cringe-inducing misery.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 31, 2008

This comedy-drama is wafer-thin, but Marsan gives it some heft as an all-too-human father.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2008

Although the subject might sound specialized, the picture is engineered with such skill that it transcends the ethnic details to become a universal story of a boy trying to find his place in an inhospitable world.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2008

For anyone who preferred Oliver Bean to Malcolm in the Middle.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 27, 2008