The Mend lacks true mayhem or insight, resulting in a repeating scherzo without a coda.

| Mar 16, 2020

An NYC-based comedy of ill manners that exudes weird, nervous energy from the opening seconds and never relents. I couldn't shake this film - it persisted in my mind like a stubborn houseguest.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 12, 2019

It's as if Ingmar Bergman and the Safdie brothers got together to make a movie. However you define it, it's quite wonderful

| Aug 21, 2017

It's a consistently wonderful, occasionally astonishing, deservedly moving piece of film craft layered on top of a screamingly funny screenplay.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 22, 2016

"It is a gloriously entertaining film that gives some terrific actors plenty to gnaw on. And they get unnervingly close to the bone."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 22, 2015

The Mend feels raw and real, as though it's remaking the world in front of our eyes. You need to see this movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 1, 2015

The Mend is a refreshingly genuine film, fueled by infectious energy and the coarsest of humor.

| Original Score: 8.7/10 | Sep 22, 2015

Say this for John Magary's indie drama: You can't predict where it's going from one moment to the next.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2015

If the characters' histories are subtle, Magary's technique is far from that.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2015

"The Mend" meanders from situation to situation, turning itself in the process into a wallow of dysfunction. And a claustrophobic wallow at that.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 10, 2015

Sharp dialogue and strong performances tumble around this ill-defined story like shoes in a dryer.

| Sep 10, 2015

John Magary's The Mend is a showcase for Josh Lucas, who proves that he's always been a leading man; it's just that Hollywood gave up on him

| Original Score: B- | Sep 10, 2015

The Mend is alive and left me feeling tempestuously alive. Magary creates characters that find life an adventure, one that's ferocious, grandiloquent and wondrous, a sustained fantasticated ----up.

| Sep 8, 2015

There's a deep self-loathing that's encoded into every character's actions, exacerbated by the precision of Magary's composition and blocking.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 30, 2015

"The Mend," about a pair of oil-and-water brothers in free fall, is by turns opaque, harsh, self-aware, indulgent and wickedly funny. It's never dull, pummeling you with its prickly smarts.

| Aug 28, 2015

The Mend shows Josh Lucas at his most present and alive. It's an electric performance in an electrifying film.

| Aug 27, 2015

The Mend finds the truths that bind families together, but it knows that everyone has to hack their own path to get there.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2015

The most swaggeringly confident debut feature I have seen since I can't even remember when, The Mend is a bender and a crawl. It's also appallingly funny

| Aug 25, 2015

Takes what could have easily been a mundane tale of brotherly dysfunction and turns it into something abstract and electrifying.

| Aug 24, 2015

Despite the willful worldliness of the high-stakes emotional games, the movie's downbeat street poetry devolves into moody clichés.

| Aug 24, 2015