A warm, endearing, and surprisingly intelligent road comedy about a hopelessly dysfunctional family ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2014

Schwarz can't make enough out of that goofy notion - visually or narratively - to get a comic steam going. But there are sidebar pleasures to be found ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2014

Dunne creates a full-blooded character. The film around him, unfortunately, takes low-key to the realm of tepid.

| May 29, 2014

It's small in scale but well worth seeing, especially if (like me) you've missed seeing Griffin Dunne.

| May 19, 2014

"The Discoverers" counters its many contrivances with relaxed pacing and an evocative sense of the American woodlands by bonfire light.

| May 15, 2014

The unusually grizzled Dunne excels. Sadly, the movie is marred by tepid, often crass comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2014

Writer-director Schwarz has a lot of fun with this nutty premise. And more important, the twisted dynamics of this particular family ring true.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2014

This walk of discovery gets lost in the woods.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2014

Schwarz is clearly drawing from the same bag of tricks as many of his indie comedy predecessors, but he's refining them. Even his wide, Wes Anderson-ian compositions have a purpose.

| May 13, 2014

Schwarz lacks the writing chops to adequately embed the character's predictable learning curve into a richer narrative fabric, but Dunne's perf is pitch-perfect.

| May 12, 2014

More warm-hearted than funny, Schwarz's feature debut benefits from an intelligent script and sympathetic lead performance by Griffin Dunne.

| May 12, 2014

It pushes itself beyond shrill predictability in its willingness to indict the public and familial histories at its core.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2014