Sometimes, just sometimes, white picket fences and an SUV aren't all that bad.

| Original Score: C | Jul 30, 2020

takes the pith out of the audience

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2019

There aren't really any surprises here. And it's a shame to waste this amount of acting talent on a script that really doesn't require much acting.

| Mar 4, 2019

This is another story of suburban strife under a placid-seeming surface.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 20, 2018

All in all, perfectly fine thanks to the cast and a fitfully witty script - but nothing to write home about.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Do you love American Beauty, but wish it had a lighter touch and a happier ending - and starred Hugh Dr. House Laurie?

| Aug 11, 2017

The Oranges dabbles with transgressive ideas (for a moment it felt like the film was implying that infidelity could be a positive force in everyone's lives) before retreating into stupefyingly predictable and safe rhythms.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2013

Although the film suffers during certain plot developments, the set-up and much of the dialogue ring true in this dramedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2013

It's the cast that carries a film like this, offering a strong level of acting gravitas to support a bitingly cynical script about the tawdry happenings in a suburb.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2013

The problem is that there's nothing terribly funny about families and friendships being torn asunder.

| Original Score: D+ | May 26, 2013

The acting almost varnishes the fractured surface, enabling the audience to accept the film as a deeply felt, feelgood family comedy.

| Dec 9, 2012

The dialogue's much saltier and sharper than you expect from a drama that's essentially playing it safe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2012

There's plenty of potential for jagged black humour in this suburban comedy-drama, but the filmmakers never take a single risk.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2012

The movie's horribly jaunty soundtrack is a problem. Ditto the blah camera-work. But mostly it's the script, which turns out to be spineless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2012

It's all mildly amusing, if fairly obvious, stuff and it's impeccably played by the superb cast. But you can't help feeling that they all deserve something rather more worthy of their talents.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2012

How much you enjoy this comedy will depend upon how gross you consider the idea of a married 50-year-old father having an affair with his best friend's 24-year-old daughter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2012

A tricky social conundrum is boiled down, lightly prodded and then forgotten by the roadside. Shame.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2012

Disappoints with its gooey liberalism and its failure to find a convincing dramatic register for the central relationship.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2012

I'm not sure a better cast has ever gone more ickily astray than in this most misbegotten of dramedies.

| Dec 6, 2012

It's no classic but diverting enough. At the very least it will most likely put your family Christmas feuds into perspective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2012