This makes for a sad but effective film, with unfortunate characters who want to be whole again but have no clue how to get there.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 19, 2022

Thanks to its humanistic acting and carefully constructed writing, The Land Of Steady Habits is a poignant depiction of a man trying to find a new lease.

| Oct 5, 2020

[A]side from its technical fluency and a typically effortless performance from Ben Mendelsohn, this self-pity party feels a decade too late.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2020

The film is smart, intelligent and one of the best from this always interesting director.

| Mar 28, 2020

Characters spend most of their time wandering through grocery stores and wine depots. None of it gets satirized as hard as it should.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2020

I like this movie. It is dark, but it also has a lot of humor in it. It also has the benefit of having characters capable of a bit of very unlikely redemption.

| Original Score: B | Feb 4, 2019

Holofcener is right to call it "a sad, small story," as beyond the warm performances the constant thrum of moneyed self-indulgence occasionally palls...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

The story line never had much urgency and the life lessons were dished out as easy as choosing bath towels.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 4, 2019

It's Holofcener's first film for Netflix, which may be ruthlessly fitting given its attack on staid domestic archetypes and middle-class mores.

| Jan 2, 2019

With excellent acting, this film is a vigorous look at suburban anomie, mid-life crisis, and the ways a man's involvement with family can prove unwanted by others.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 6, 2018

The Land of Steady Habits is, without fanfare, like life. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 29, 2018

...has far too few of the acutely observed moments that make Holofcener so special as a filmmaker.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2018

Quiet, but telling stuff.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 3, 2018

The result is flintier than Holofcener usually is, but, for all her acerbity, she is big on forgiveness - not because she's a pushover, but because she isn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2018

Mendelsohn's wry and appealing manner slowly gives way to a stunning lack of moral imperative that is nothing short of tragic.

| Sep 27, 2018

Powerful, mature family drama has drugs, language, sex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2018

It's only in minute moments that the film does anything very remarkable, and even then it's only the kind of pleasures that flit by - tiny things that perk up viewers just enough to make them feel like they're seeing something worthwhile.

| Sep 24, 2018

It's a frustrating movie.

| Sep 21, 2018

While Nicole Holofcener (adapting a 2014 novel by Ted Thompson) uses sometimes pat templates to explore the heart of bourgeois darkness, it must be said the end product is far less neutered than one would expect.

| Sep 20, 2018

An engaging and well-acted drama about the challenges of middle age and suburban living.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2018