An agonizing exercise in indie quirk.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2021

It sure is all familiar yet it all resonates with such emotional honesty that you're unlikely to care that you've been down this cinematic road before.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

Martindale deftly pulls off the trick of stealing a whole movie from an all-star ensemble.

| Jun 9, 2020

"The Hollars" doesn't aspire to be anything it's not, and although this makes it predictable, Krasinski does a good job giving the movie its own persona and charisma to make it worth checking out.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2018

The Hollars fails but not miserably. It has its moments and its good intentions. So why doesn't it work?

| Aug 29, 2017

[John] Krasinski is fortunate that he has the name recognition to try his hand at anything he wants, but maybe he shouldn't cast his net quite so wide.

| Aug 18, 2017

With a certain hint of dark comedy, Jim Strouse's script talks about the economic crisis, small business's problems and the return of the forty-year-old to home. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 22, 2017

Fun situations and dialogues are scarce and dramatic moments become trivialized until they're deprived of any capacity to move. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 17, 2017

The director manages to give the film that fair dose of sentimentalism and a cute sense of humor without being cheesy, all thanks to a perfect cast of actors. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2017

A film that possesses a certain personality, given that it give its characters a force above the archetype they represent, but in the long run, it's not enough. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2017

The Hollars is one of those films you watch and almost immediately forget.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2017

The Hollars does achieve occasional poignant moments, most of them due to Martindale's warm presence and the goodwill she inspires. But the other actors have little to work with.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2017

The Hollars is a great little indie that really has it all.

| Oct 5, 2016

Maybe there's a longer, more graceful earlier version out there. Maybe there's an earlier version of the screenplay that emphasizes authenticity over punchlines. But what's on screen feels like an overly cautious, watered-down final draft.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2016

An uplifting dramedy that reveals how disappointment can be a spiritual teacher.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2016

The Hollars" follows a very predictable storyline but the journey is made far more interesting by a first-rate cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2016

'The Hollars,' directed by and starring John Krasinski, fails to connect because it doesn't say anything that we haven't already heard.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2016

The humor is often forced, the emotions are overwrought, and the swelling music cues lose even their minor emotional effectiveness after the third or fourth time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2016

If you were to buy a kit labeled "quirky independent movie," the assembled parts would look like The Hollars, in which a stellar cast is stranded in a clich-heavy family dramedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2016

Rarely has family dysfunction on film been more dreadfully boring than in The Hollars.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2016