It’s difficult to imagine anyone else but Douglas making Ben Kalmen such a likable character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2023

Solitary Man enjoys cataloging despicable people. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 15, 2022

A little incomplete and largely unsatisfying.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Movie often romanticize people who live every day like it may be their last, who live like there is no tomorrow. "Solitary Man" shows the other side of that, the loneliness, the broken relationships, the burned bridges, and the pain left behind.

| Original Score: B | Jul 14, 2020

Douglas does have a commanding presence and it is good to see him back, but as his character becomes less and less likable, Solitary Man goes off the rails.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2019

Douglas has always been at his best when he's playing someone with no scruples... Unfortunately, not even he can do anything about the message feeling distinctly one-note.

| May 15, 2018

A worthwhile watch even if an overlooked film.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 25, 2017

There's no likeability anywhere in this film.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 18, 2014

The film begins and ends with scenes of acute existential reflection, a state actors rarely convey convincingly-least of all in a contemporary American film.

| Nov 13, 2013

Douglas has a good supporting cast to work with though -- he's not the whole show despite appearing in every scene.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 3, 2011

Gripping drama about getting older; with drinking, sex.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2010

Michael Douglas gives his most accomplished and satisfying peformance in a decade (since Wonder Boys in 2000), playing a role that suits him like a silk glove.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 15, 2010

full review at Movies for the Masses

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

A walking, talking screenplay.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 11, 2010

Koppelmans script is awash in phony scenarios.

| Original Score: C | Oct 12, 2010

A terrific turn by Douglas, and strong support, elevates this character-driven drama above its unlikeable protagonist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2010

The film's knotty relationships and crisp dialogue are surpassed only by Douglas' captivating turn as a troubled heel whose pathetic behavior fools no one, least of all himself.

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

... [Michael] Douglas never drops the charm or the confidence, his greed or lust or simple arrogance pumping up beyond caring when confronted with his own sleaze.

| Sep 11, 2010

It became such a bore that I found myself watching a 60-year-old man and repeatedly saying, Will you just grow up? It's just sad.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2010

A bit too-neatly designed as The Ultimate Michael Douglas Experience, it's an irresistible one-man show of arrogant entitlement and aching vulnerability.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2010